HARROLD’S 
PEDIGREED SEEDS 
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May 20, 1040 
This little booklet is not our usual Pansy Annual, but 
is a preview of the Annual. In line with our policy of 
perfecting our service to our trade customers, we are 
completely rewriting the Annual this year and enlarging 
it. The 1940 edition will be by far the most valuable issue 
we have ever published and „a copy will be mailed to you 
just as soon as they are off the press. 
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However, as our old mailing date o&June tenth was'; 
a little late for some of our customers, and as the large 
amount of work on this new edition will necessarily set 
the release date back a few days more this year, we are 
submitting this preview edition from which you can 
make orders for material needed before the Annual arriv- 
es. Among these items needed early will probably be 
Delphiniums for early planting as well as Pansies, Violas 
and probably several items from the perennial group. 
Naturally Snapdragon seeds and Cineraria will be of in¬ 
terest now for June planting and Zinnias to plant out. 
Send these orders right along and we will give them our 
usual careful attention; filling your requirements with 
seeds of the highest quality and of the latest crop. All 
are germination and strain tested in the usual Harrold 
mannar. 
WAR AND THE SEED MARKET 
As yet the war has not been felt very much in the seed trade, 
either in shortages or price changes. This is due in the most part 
to the fact that probably 70 per cent of the items which the trade 
imports were in transit at the time the war broke out. It is noted that 
late harvested items were greatly delayed and a few have not come 
through at all. In a few cases loss in transit has occured. Generally 
speaking no serious change in supply and prices should occure until 
the seed trade would normally begin receiving stock from 1940 harvest. 
We anticipate more difficulty with Pansies and Violas and a few 
of the perennials than with any other group. While our own seeds are 
American grown as nearly as possible — probably more completely 
than any other source of supply — the fact still remains that a great 
deal of this seed has been imported annually from Denmark, Holland, 
Germany, England, France, Italy and Switzerland. Denmark and 
Germany are definently out of the picture now and no one knows how 
soon Holland and Italy will be. This logically may be expected to 
make a greater demand upon American production, which in Pansies 
and Violas has never been but a fraction of the quantity used. We 
suggest that you let us have orders for your seasons requirements at 
the earliest date at which you can determine your needs. We will give 
our regular customers every protection we possibly can. 
HARROLD’S 
PANSY GARDENS 
and GREENHOUSES 
P. O. BOX 29 
GRANTS PASS, 
© 1940. 
PHONE 283J 
OREGON, U. S* A. 
Harrold-Kelly Print. U. S. A. 
