OSCAR H. WILL & CO., BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
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Something Extra of Our Own Selection Will Be Included with Every Order for Garden or Flower Seed Over 25 cts. 
W E have had during the season of 19 38 the best and most nearly perfect 
weather and rainfall in many years. Our territory actually blossomed 
like the rose and with the roses, also with grasses, grains and all growing 
things. It is true that we had cut worms, wire worms, blister beetles and 
grasshoppers. No drouth period ever closed without a final plague of insect 
pests. The ground contains subsoil moisture, the great drouth seems defi¬ 
nitely over and we can look with reasonable assurance to the year ahead. 
Our extremes of weather have amply proven to us in the past decade that special va¬ 
rieties of most plants are necessary for agricultural and horticultural success in the North¬ 
west. These varieties must possess winter hardiness, drouth resistance, earliness, and other 
traits of adaptation. Above all they must have that high quality for which the products of 
our region are famous. 
It is fine to realize that conditions again are favorable enough to Northern Great Plains 
growers so that they may turn their attention to, and place their emphasis upon, quality once 
more. 
For 57 years we have devoted ourselves to producing 
quality seeds, trees, shrubs and plants adapted to our ter¬ 
ritory, and we feel that we have some accomplishments 
to our credit along chat line. We do not and can not em¬ 
phasize price above quality and fitness, but, we believe 
that our prices are definitely very reasonable in compari¬ 
son with the lowest, and more so for the special types 
and sorts which we have to offer. Our customers know 
our products and we believe that whoever gives them a 
trial will become a customer for future years. 
In these days of political turmoil and threats of ill 
over much of the world the land with its fields and gardens 
is firm under the feet of those who seek it, and farming 
and gardening bring to their devotees a dignity, a peace 
and an humble self reliance which make them the great 
hope for sanity among all mankind. This fact, we believe, 
is typified for us in the little drawing of one of our self-re¬ 
liant and patient Indian predecessors in Great Plains agri¬ 
culture. 
WILL’S OLD-FASHIONED FLOWER GARDEN COLLECTION 
One 
Bachelor Button, Mixed 
Balsam, Camellia Flowered 
Calendula, Orange King 
Cosmos, Early Flowering 
Single 
Dianthus, Chinese l’ink 
Helichrysum, AI Ixed 
Marigold, French Mixed 
packet each of the follow 
Mignonette, Machet 
Morning Glory, Mixed 
Phlox, Drummondi 
Grandiflora 
Poppy, Mixed Carnation 
Portulaea, Single Mixed 
Stocks, Dwarf Ten Weeks 
Sweet William 
mg: 
Zinnia, Dahlia Flowered 
Gold Medal Mixture 
Also one ounce each of 
the following: 
Will’s Pioneer Dwarf 
Mixed Nasturtiums 
Will’s imperial Mixed 
Sweet Peas 
This $1.33 Value-—Postpaid for Only. 
Antirrhinum—Snapdragon. 
AGERATUM—Blue Perfection (A). One 
of the best border and bedding plants, 
10 inches tall, quick growing and 
flowering freely from early summer to 
frost. Pkt., 5c; 14 oz., 20c. 
ALYSSUM (A). One of the finest an¬ 
nuals we have for edging. Compact 
plants, six incites high, completely 
covered with bloom throughout the 
season. 
LITTLE GEM. Honey scented white 
blooms. Pkt., 5c; 14 oz., 20c; oz., 35c. 
LILAC QUEEN. Deep lavender lilac 
blossoms. Pkt., 5c; 34 oz., 15c. 
ANTIRRHINUM — SNAPDRAGON. 
M A X IM U M GIANT FLOWERED 
(A*). The best in Snapdragons. Can 
be sown outdoors with good results, 
but for early blooming should be 
started inside. Splendid for cutting, 
our mixture is unexcelled. Pkt., 10c; 
Ys oz., 30c; 34 oz., 50c. 
Ageratum—Blue Perfection. 
Alyssum—Little Gem. 
CUSTOMERS LIVING IN NORTH DAKOTA MUST ADD TWO PER CENT FOR 
SALES TAX TO THEIR REMITTANCES FOR NURSERY STOCK, DECORATIVE 
GREENHOUSE STOCK, INSECTICIDES, TOOLS AND SUPPLIES. THIS TAX DOFS 
NOT APPLY TO SEEDS, FEEDS, ONION PLANTS OR VEGETABLE PLANTS. 
KEY TO 
SYMBOLS 
(A) 
Annuals. 
(T) 
Tender. 
(B) 
Biennials. 
(C) 
Climbers. 
(P) 
Perennials. 
* 
For cutting. 
WILL’S FLOWER SEED—All Flower Seed Postpaid 
