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Garden Seeds 
PRESENTING SOME SELECTED STANDARD VARIETIES. 
In presenting our garden seeds, we offer you some splendid standard varieties, 
the seed of which we have grown and harvested ourselves. There is not a wide 
variety of seeds offered, but you will find all of them of high quality. 
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 
opportunity of explaining in part why our offering of garden seeds is limited. 
WE GROW AND SELL OUR OWN SEED. 
In the first place, we have made it an invariable practice to sell only the seed 
that we grow and harvest ourselves. Climatic condition prevent our growing many 
types of vegetables, hence we cannot offer them and still maintain our policy of 
growing all our own seed. 
A WIDE VARIETY MEANS DIFFUSION OF EFFORT. 
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 pos¬ 
sible work being done with any of them. 
NATURE FORCES A DIVERSE SYSTEM OF CROPS 
However, due to peculiar conditions existing in our district, we are forced to 
grow a certain amount of other crops than our speciality 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 produce a more or less wide variety of grains and vege¬ 
tables. By taking advantage of the necessity forced upon us by nature, we are able 
to offer other vegetable seeds besides cantaloupes. However, we do not want this 
list to grow any larger than necessary. 
WE ARE OFFERING A FEW STANDARD VARIETIES. 
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. 
Irrigation and high altitude make Rocky Ford a garden spot. 
