GRIMM ALFALFA 
HARDIEST ALFALFA KNOWN 
The long and interesting history of 
Grimm Alfalfa tells a story of cold, severe 
winters, of survival of the best and strongest 
plants, of constant tests and plantings to 
bring the proof of vigor and hardiness to this 
now world-famed variety, GRIMM. 
Here is what the U. S. Government Bul¬ 
letin No. 209, by the Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry, says: “THE GRIMM VARIETY 
IS MUCH HARDIER THAN THE OR¬ 
DINARY KINDS, AND THERE IS 
EVEN STRONG REASON TO BE¬ 
LIEVE THAT IT IS THE HARDIEST 
FORM OF CULTIVATED PLANT.” 
Difference Between Grimm and 
Common Alfalfa 
This persistent, superior hardiness is due 
to many things. The yellow and the varie¬ 
gated blooms show the cross in its ancestry 
that indicates hardy parentage. Then those 
long years of survival of the best plants in 
that rigorous climate means the selection of 
only the strongest. 
Compare the vigorous Grimm plant with 
the ordinary Common and you will recog¬ 
nize physical characteristics that undoubt¬ 
edly are great factors in its cold resistant 
ability. 
Grimm has a greater diversity of forms, 
upright and decumbent plants often grow- 
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