GERMINATION AND GARDEN TESTED 
Our HARR OLD’S PEDIGREED PANSIES are garden tested every season 
to determine the quality of each individual lot of seeds from which we make 
shipment. Also they are tested comparatively with the principal competitive 
varieties in order that a check of their merits can be intelligently determined. 
During the harvest and shipping season, lots from which shipments 
are being made are germination tested at sufficiently frequent intervals so 
that all seeds shipped have been checked within at least 30 days prior to 
shipment. At time of tests each lot must have met our high standard before 
it is released for shipment. 
NOT STORED IN PACKETS 
It has been common practice among many seedsmen to packet up at the 
beginning of a season, or at spare moments, what seeds of each variety they 
estimate will be used during the season. This permits employment of help in 
winter on this work, and facilitates shipping. Tests completed by us over a 
period of years, however, leads us to believe that with Pansy seeds such 
practice is injurious. 
Under trial Pansy seeds of known germination, stored in packets within 
six months lost as high a percentage of germination as check seeds of nearly 
identical original germination did in 4 years when stored by our perfected 
bulk process. As check tests were made from seeds of nearly identical 
germination from 3 crops with packeting .he only difference of conditions 
it is safe to conclude that injury occurred thi. ugh reaction of paper or lack 
of ventilation. We believe it was the latter. 
For these reasons we do not packet Pansy 'eeds or any other seeds which 
we supply until the day shipment is made. Each packet sent out contains 
a complete record which identifies the contents of each packet as to strain, 
lot, origin, latest test, and year of crop. No greater care is taken by any 
seedsman to supply you with the freshest and most viable seeds possible. 
SEEDS GRADED TO CLOSE LIMITS 
Our climatic and soil conditions here permit our growing a remarkably 
large and well developed quality of Pansy seeds. Several years ago, however, 
we began, through the development of a m re efficient cleaning process, to 
ship Pansy seeds which were graded to individual seed weight. This has 
permitted us to supply seeds which were frem 3 to 10 seeds per grain of 
weight heavier than average commercial seeds; and, while the actual num¬ 
ber of seeds contained in a given quantity of such seed is less by actual 
count, the heavier seeds apparently contain a higher vitality and thus pro¬ 
duce a larger number of sturdy plants. In our own commercial plantings 
we estimate an ounce of these seeds for each 7,000 plants wanted. Usually 
however, we get more than this. We have on occasion obtained 10,000, 
12,000 and even 15,000 plants per ounce and many of our patrons have re¬ 
ported similar results. 
Quality Cj'uide'L 
It will be noted that in the offerings of HARROLD’S PEDIGREED 
STRAIN PANSIES there are two distinct qualities of seeds offered. These 
differ as follows. 
HARROLD’S PEDIGREED QUALITY SEEDS 
This grade is a super-selection from our breeding work. It is easily a 
year ahead of standard quality stock as it is grown by a process similar to 
the breeding of our future seed producing strain. For the grower who re¬ 
quires modest quantities and wants the best possible stock this quality 
is highly recommended. For general production plantings, however, use 
the following grade. Due to great care and limited productions this Pedi¬ 
greed Quality is limited as to available supply. 
HARROLD’S STANDARD QUALITY SEEDS 
These are our regular commercial production of which about 98 % of our 
crop consists. It will be found suitable for the growing of the finest type of 
stock for the general trade, and is on a par with the only grade of seeds that 
most breeders offer. You will make no mistake in using this quality only. 
Harrold Press, U. S. A. 
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