Welcome, 1937 ... A Happy New Year to All ♦ 
We have bade adieu to 1936 and rejoiced in all the good 
things it brought to us, and are now going to forget its losses 
and disappointments, setting our faces like a flint to do our 
full part in meeting our opportunities and responsibilities that 
await us during 1937. We are well aware that our duties and 
responsibilities can only be fully discharged by prompt service 
in every detail of our business, by avoiding misrepresentations 
in every form, and by supplying the public with the best seeds 
that can be secured from any source. This applies to every 
item in all the different lines we handle. We urge the house¬ 
wife, no matter where or from whom her purchases may be 
made, the commercial gardener in growing produce for the 
market and the farmer in selecting his farm seeds, to exercise 
good judgment in making their purchases and to remember 
that seeds cannot be judged by appearances, and that seeds 
that have been selected and reselected for years cost a great 
deal more than seeds that have just been sown, then harvested, 
then cleaned by an ordinary fanning mill, and afterwards 
offered as seed. 
BUY QUALITY, remembering that as a rule we usually get 
what we pay for. The Inland Seed Company secure their seeds 
from a number of the states in this country; likewise from a 
number of European countries, because time and experience 
have proved conclusively that on account of difference in soil 
and climate certain seeds will develop more nearly perfect in 
certain places than they will in other places. For this reason 
The Inland Seed Company reaches out to the ends of the 
earth to secure the most perfect seeds and to supply the 
public with well-selected seeds. 
The Inland Seed Company will always consider it a privilege 
to serve you. 
We trust you will examine carefully the colored plates as 
shown on the inside of the front and back covers of this 
catalog. The Committee of the All-American Selections have 
passed on these and they all have received awards. No finer 
blooms can be secured than these in their respective varieties. 
W also ask your close attention to the flowers listed on the 
following pages. They are worthy of a place in every garden. 
GERMINATION. The Inland Seed Company test their 
vegetable and flower seeds for germination before they are 
offered for sale. 
BETTER GARDENING 
One of the most useful inexpensive booklets with which we 
are familiar is what is known as “Better Gardening”, edited 
by Harry R. O’Brien, a nationally known writer on garden and 
farm topics, as well as teacher of Agricultural Journalism at 
Ohio State University. 
This booklet contains 48 pages and has chapter or chapters 
on 26 different subjects filled full of very interesting and in¬ 
structive information. Forwarded to your address for 10 cents 
or will forward it free upon request with any order amounting 
to $1.00 for package or bulk vegetable seeds. 
FREE INFORMATION BUREAU 
We are glad to record that our customers have used this 
freely, and we wish to state that it has been a source of great 
pleasure and profit to ourselves, as frequently we have been 
obliged to investigate before answering, and this fact accounts 
for the delay of a few days in answering some inquiries. This 
has been established for the use of our customers and the 
more it is used the better we are pleased. It is entirely free. 
SUPER SNOWBALL CAULIFLOWER 
Owing to the fact that a great many cauliflower seed growers develop a so-called strain of 
their own production giving it a special name or number, it therefore is not easy for the 
market gardener to distinguish between these special names or numbers. It must be admitted 
that there is a great difference in the different strains of seed. For instance, all Snowball 
cauliflower seed will not produce the same identical type of heads. The Inland Seed Company 
has been persistently purchasing from the same grower in order that they in turn could 
supply their customers with the same high grade quality of Snowball cauliflower, and the 
same type of head. 
The Inland Seed Company has secured from a specialist in the production of cauliflower 
seed a strain of his own development and which he has placed upon the market under the 
name of SUPER SNOWBALL. The Inland Seed Company is assured by this grower that 
Super Snowball in comparison with other strains of Snowball is fully entitled to the distinc¬ 
tive name of Super Snowball as it is considered superior in every respect to the other strains 
and types now on the market. It is early, heads generally forming at the same time suffi¬ 
cient foliage for protection. Pure white round heads. 
Pkt. 25c; Vz oz. $1.50; oz. $2.75; 2 oz. $5.25; y> lb. $10.00. 
ELITE GOLDEN ACRE 
This is a special strain being introduced by the originator of the original Golden Acre. It 
has taken years of experimentation and up-breeding to develop this special strain to its present 
perfected state. It is much better in every respect than the original strain and is now placed 
on the market with the firm belief that it is by far the best early cabbage for market gar¬ 
deners. Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c; 2 oz. $1.25; 14 lb. $2.00; % lb. $3.50; lb. $6.00. 
SCARLET DAWN TOMATO 
The grower has this to say of the Scarlet Dawn Tomato: “Recognizing a need for a 
tomato of the Marglobe type but earlier in season and more prolific, we made crosses of a 
number of different varieties Eventually from one of the Clarks Early by Marglobe hybrids 
this desired combination of qualities was secured. 
“The solid wall and freedom from puffiness, the bright scarlet color and globular shape 
of this variety are all characteristics that are required in a good shipping tomato. Because 
of its productiveness, color, earliness and quality, it will appeal strongly to the home gar¬ 
dener as well as to the commercial grower.” 
Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c; 2 oz. $1.25; 14 lb. $2.25; y> lb. $4.00; lb. $7.00. 
GERMINATION AFTER 20 CENTURIES— Last 
year, some seed wheat found in Tutankhamen’s 
tomb, in Egypt, was taken to Australia by Mr. S. 
Macindo, of Glen Innes, New South Wales, who had 
been studying in England. The seed, crossed with 
Australian wheat, has germinated, despite the 2,000 
years it has lain dormant. Samples of the fully 
matured grain have just been shown at the New¬ 
castle (N. S. W.) Agricultural Show. They have 
excited a very great interest as the outcome of an 
experiment that had been thought to be impossible 
of success. 
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