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QUALITY, 
PURITY 
PRESENTING A FEW SELECTED VARIETIES 
TN PRESENTING our garden seeds, we offer you some splendid varieties, the seed of 
which we have grown and harvested ourselves. There is not a wide variety of seeds, 
but you will find quality in them all. 
We often receive letters from our customers asking us why we do not grow some 
particular kind of vegetable in which they are interested. We wish to take this oppor¬ 
tunity of explaining in part why our offering of garden seeds is limited. 
In the first place, we have made it an invariable practice to sell only the seed we 
grow and harvest ourselves. As a result, of course, many varieties of vegetables are 
automatically eliminated because climatic conditions prevent their growing in our district. 
In the second place, we are specialists in the production of cantaloupe seed and our 
interest is centered in this particular field. To attempt to grow a wide variety of other 
crops for seed would diffuse our attention and prevent the best possible work being 
done with any of them. 
However, due to peculiar conditions existing in our district, we are forced to grow 
a certain amount of other crops than our specialty of cantaloupes. Unlike many other 
sections of the country, it is inadvisable and unprofitable to grow the same crop on one 
piece of land more than two years in succession. Consequently we are forced by nature 
to grow a diverse system of crops upon our land. In our rotation of crops we must pro¬ 
duce a more or less wide variety of grains and vegetables. By taking advantage of the 
necessity forced upon us by nature, we are able to offer other vegetable seeds besides can¬ 
taloupes. However, we do not want this list to grow any larger than necessary. 
Under our present system of farming we are able to offer you the vegetable seeds 
listed on the following pages. These are standard varieties and we have taken care to 
see that they meet exacting requirements of quality and purity. You will find them as 
good as it is possible for you to buy anywhere. 
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Irrigation and high altitude make the Arkansas Valley an ideal garden spot. 
