4. Plant your g arden in the aun t 
Those green, growing plants need from four 
to six hours of sunlight daily. If you live where 
summers are cool make your garden plot longest 
from north to south — thus plants get a more even 
distribution of the sun's rays throughout the day. 
However, if you live where summers are hot, and there is danger 
from hot south winds, make it longest from east to west. What¬ 
ever you do, don't plant your garden where it is shaded through¬ 
out most of the day by hills, high trees, or buildings, and don't 
plant it in a low shaded spot where, because of lack of sunlight, 
the ground remains cold and damp. 
5. Gardening is Easier . More Fun if you Kee p it near the 
house. 
Gardening can be a lot of work — or it can be comparatively 
easy. One way to make it a more enjoyable task is to plant it 
near the house where you can work in it at various odd moments 
in your day, simply by stepping out the door. By having it handy 
you'll work in it more and take better care of it than if it is 
located too far from the house. If you have a small garden near 
the house plant your early, small seed vegetables in it. Then if 
your larger space is more distant put your bulky vegetables such 
as sweet com, potatoes, beans and peas out there. 
First thing, get out your copy of the Michael- 
Leonard Seed catalog. Go through it page by page and jot down 
the names of those vegetables the folks in your family like best. 
Of course, you know you'll want sane tomatoes. Tomatoes are easy 
to grow, and are high in vitamins A and C. You'll want beans... 
one of America's favorite vegetables. Beans, it is said, produce 
more food per square foot than any other vegetable except tomatoes. 
Your Michael-Leonard catalog lists 47 varieties to choose from. 
And peas — everyone should plant some Michael-Leonard peas. We 
have a new hybrid pea that grows big and round but stays sweet and 
tender. We call it Michael's Mammoth Early June. Then there are 
carrots, beets, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, radishes, turnips, 
spinach broccoli, onions, sweet com. 
...Yes, by all means, sweet com. Plant some Top-Flight 
Bantam, a newly created Michael-Leonard hybrid Sweet Com that 
was the All-America selection for 1942. It's a yellow sweet com 
that's sweeter, more tender, has larger kernels and a larger 
ear than any yellow sweet com you ever tried before. And when 
it comes to uniform growth and high yields — will you be amazed! 
We also have a hybrid white sweet com — it's Silver Cross 
Bantam, with all the good flavor of yellow com. Like all of our 
hybrid sweet com varieties, it's easy growing. 
