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Gardening is Good Fun 
I T combines pleasure with profit. The dividends are large. They come to you in 
the form of Healthful exercise and the Satisfaction of producing through the 
agency of nature’s laboratory, wonders that cannot be obtained in any other way. 
Flowers, fruits and vegetables are mostly sunshine and water together with infinitely 
small amounts of so-called plant foods. The results through man’s help reflect your 
skill and care. Picture in your mind a home or a city without any vegetation what¬ 
ever. Unless that city can draw on another location where vegetation does exist it 
would die. Seeds are raw materials of variable and limitless qualities, out of which, 
together with your knowledge and skill come beauty and food for all. 
Hidden Assets in Seeds 
S EEDS are bought for what they will produce. Yet there is no way of judging from appearance 
whether a certain lot of seeds will produce a good crop or a poor one. Seeds may be tested for 
germination in a few days. It is comparatively simple to make such a test and no seedsman should 
think of selling seeds without a germination test. But the only way of knowing in advance what seeds 
are likely to produce is to know the characteristics of their parents. Good seed stocks must come from 
outstanding plants possessing, to the greatest possible extent, the desired qualities of productiveness, 
uniformity, season, flavor, color, disease-resistance, or any other good feature. Such stocks are the 
result of integrity and skill in selection and plant breeding. 
FOR SIXTY-TWO YEARS, through times of depression and prosperity, the confidence of our cus¬ 
tomers has enabled us to maintain the standards whereby PLATT’S SEEDS have stood The Test 
of Time. 
We McJze a Sp&oiciMif, a/ Q>igAA SeeA 
for Lawns and Athletic Fields, and invite 
your inquiries concerning formulas to meet special needs 
