The Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Seed Breeders Assn 
Garden Seeds 
PRESENTING A FEW SELECTED VARIETIES 
In presenting our garden seeds, we offer you some splendid varieties, the seed 
of which we have grown and harvested ourselves. There is not a wide variety of 
seeds, but you will find quality in them all. 
We often receive letters from our customers asking us why we do not grow 
more different kinds of vegetables in which they are interested. We wish to take this 
opportunity of explaining in part why our offering of garden seeds is limited. 
In the first place, we have made it an invariable practice to sell only the seed 
we grow and harvest ourselves. As a result, of course, many varieties of vegetables 
are automatically eliminated because climatic conditions prevent their growing in 
our district. 
In the second place, we are specialists in the production of cantaloupe seed 
and our interest is centered in this particular field. To attempt to grow a wide 
variety of other crops for seed would diffuse our attention and prevent the best 
possible work being done with any of them. 
However, due to peculiar conditions existing in our district, we are forced to 
grow a certain amount of other crops than our specialty of cantaloupes. Unlike 
many other sections of the country, it is inadvisable and unprofitable to grow the 
same crop on one piece of land more than two years in succession. Consequently 
we are forced by nature to grow a diverse system of crops upon our land. In our 
rotation of crops we must produce a more or less wide variety of grains and vege¬ 
tables. By taking advantage of the necessity forced upon us by nature, we are able 
to offer other vegetable seeds besides cantaloupes. However, we do not want this 
list to grow any larger than necessary. 
Under our present system of farming we are able to offer you the vegetable 
seeds listed on the following pages. These are standard varieties and we have taken 
care to see that they meet exacting requirements of quality and purity. You will 
find them as good as it is possible for you to buy anywhere. 
Careful work in the growing of pea seed is essential in producing a variety 
as early and as prolific as the Little Marvel pea. 
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