Life in Antarctica 
Calabash Gourds Decorated as Peug*uius 
No, we didn’t follow Admiral Byrd to Little 
America to snap this picture of penguins at 
play. We just dressed up some Calabash 
gourds and here’s the result. Plant some of 
these gourds and have Antarctic wild life in 
your own back yard. Packet 10c; 1 oz. 25c. 
J. D. Sez, Sez’e —Speaking of Penguins, one 
of the holiday greeting cards I received last 
December showed a Penguin, with this mes¬ 
sage: “One bird that doesn’t talk too much.” 
This came from a pal in Montana. I am still 
wondering; I know we all talk too much—but 
—well—was this meant especially for me— 
.1. D. ? How about it, B. C.? 
Gourds 
Many Varieties 
The flowers are often beautiful and the fruit 
ornamental and sometimes useful. The small 
fancy gourds are excellent toys for children, 
while the larger gourds may be used as dip¬ 
pers, sugar troughs, bowls and birdhouses. 
My mixed gourd seeds contain about all the 
types and sizes ever heard of. 
ITDST DGG. Grow your own nest eggs. Give 
the hen an inspiration. Plant this seed in 
poor soil lest you raise an ostrich egg. 
DIPPER. Grow your own dippers. 
CADABASH. Pipe Gourd or Powder Horn. 
DISH CDOTH. The flbrous interior may be 
used like a sponge. 
HEBCUDBS CLUB. Enormous club-shaped 
fruits. 
SMALL GOURDS MIXED. Ornamental kinds. 
LARGE GOURDS MIXED. Great variety. 
PRICES: All varieties of Gourds, also 
MIXED kinds. Pkt. 5c; oz. 30c. 
Prom Texas: I have never had such fine 
Zinnias as I raised from your seed this sum¬ 
mer. They were knockouts.—C. B. L. 
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Presenting — 
Vitalizing Vegetables 
lor Voracious 
Valetudinarians . ... 
How often we hear, “I can buy our vege¬ 
tables cheaper than I can raise ’em.” Don’t 
look now, but the guy over there who said 
that thinks he has a dandy alibi. Chances are 
he consumes time and gas tearing up and 
down the highway, to no purpose, that would 
handle and finance a dandy backyard garden 
and make the front yard the talk of the neigh¬ 
borhood. 
The answer is, if you don’t have a home 
garden you simply don’t eat as many fresh 
vegetables, and you know what the doctor 
ordered—more vegetables, and the fresher the 
better—not to mention Popeye and his spinach! 
So far, so good. Now a word about the 
QUALITY of our vegetable seeds. Best way 
to prove this is for you to plant and see. We 
wouldn’t be selling particular planters all 
over the United States and Canada year after 
year if they did not get satisfactory results. 
Take Cabbage seed, for example. A Cabbage 
grower must be sure his seed is high quality, 
I especially recommend our special stock of 
Copenhagen Market, Golden Acre and Danish 
Round Head, that we offer in original sealed 
bags as they come to us direct from our Dan¬ 
ish seed growers. (These 3 kinds are the 
money makers for commercial growers, and 
fine for home gardens.) 
A leading market gardener wrote us: “Your 
Golden Acre seed in sealed bag produced the 
largest, best, earliest Cabbage crop I have 
seen.” Well, why shouldn’t it, when we get 
this seed direct from the ORIGINATOR of 
Golden Acre? 
And speaking of Cabbage seed, here’s a tip. 
Cabbage seed not only is good for several 
years or more, but many old experienced grow¬ 
ers claim that the older the seed, the better it 
heads, so long as the germination is still 
good. 
So why not do this: Buy at least half a 
pound of a kind in sealed bag, plant some this 
season and hold the rest over for next year. 
Some gardeners do this also so that they can 
see a year ahead what the seed will produce. 
Still another tip: Ain’t human nature funny! 
You can bank on what the average human 
will do under certain conditions. We seeds¬ 
men notice this: That if a certain vegetable— 
onions for example—is selling at high prices 
one winter, the demand for onion seed the 
following spring is heavy. If prices low, then 
the average planter sees no point in planting 
onion seed. 
Some folks sit and think. Others just sit. 
Now suppose you sit and THINK a bit. It 
doesn’t always work, because many other con¬ 
ditions enter. But the chances are so many 
other planters will feel the same way as John 
Doe does about the situation, that the total 
planting will be much less, and prices higher 
the NEXT year. 
Now don’t bank on this for a certainty, and 
come back and try to collect damages from me 
if this doesn’t work out. But it HAS worked 
out time and again. 
The most successful gardeners, however, do 
not allow themselves to be stampeded by 
either high or low prices of PERISHABLES. 
They plant about the same proportions of dif¬ 
ferent kinds of vegetables each year, going a 
little heavy on kinds selling low the winter 
before, but not plunging. What I’ve said ap¬ 
plies to crops that cannot well be carried over. 
The theory would not apply so well to grains, 
though somewhat even to such crops. 
Speaking of Cabbage again —or yet—did you 
ever try sowing mixed Cabbage seed thinly, 
right out in the garden in early spring? Thin 
to 10 inches and have a succession of heads, 
ready for use, over a long period and in sum¬ 
mer and fall. 
