19^0—Our Thirtieth Anniversary! 
Greetings to AH of you. Our Friends! 
During these years millions of our Catalogues have been mailed to our great host of 
customers everywhere. Here is our Thirtieth Catalogue. Many of you and your sons 
and daughters have been planting our seeds, Schell’s Quality Seeds, with great success 
every one of these thirty years. 
AND AGAIN I WANT TO EMPHASIZE that SCHELL’S SEED HOUSE is 
YOUR SEED HOUSE. WE are YOUR FRIENDS and YOU are OUR FRIENDS 
We are growing for you the very highest quality pure-bred Seeds from which you may 
grow the very best-quality crops. 
Many ounce prices formerly 15 cents are now 10 cents or 
I riOCrSa 333 ^ per cent down; many ^-pound prices are down 25 per 
cent; and other quantities are down in similar proportions. With these reductions and then taking off the quantity 
cash discount on your entire order, as shown below, you see we are giving you a very great saving. 
How Can We Make These Great Savings For You? 
By doing twice as much business in 1940. We expect it and we 
have every reason to believe we will double our sales this year. 
Increased production, whether bushels of wheat per acre, or 
onions, or beans, reduces your cost per acre. The more auto¬ 
mobiles a factory can produce in a month, the less they cost. 
The more orders we fill each day, the less the cost. This we 
anticipate and we are giving the saving to you in lower prices. 
Now there is a definite bottom line of cost in the production 
of pure-bred seeds. This cannot be lowered—the savings 
must be made through increased business. 
Thanks to You, Our Customers and Friends, for your 
orders in past years and for this year’s order which we with 
pleasant anticipation hope to receive soon. 
To New Friends.— We invite you to send your order to us 
this year and get quality, save money, and make more 
profit if you grow for market, with better crops which bring 
SCHELL’S SEED HOUSE—Is Youi Seed House top prices. ' 
Special 
Discounts! 
This applies to Vegetable Seeds and Flower Seeds only, not to Field Seeds. 
On all Orders of from $ 2 to J 5 you may deduct 6 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from $ 6 to $10 you may deduct 8 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from 511 to S25 you may deduct 10 per cent cash discount. 
On all Orders of from $26 to $50 or $100 or more you may deduct 12 per cent cash discount. 
You may deduct the above cash discount from the total of your order for vegetable seeds and flower seeds 
when sending cash with your order. You see it is very much to your interest to send your entire order to us and 
save from 6 to 12 per cent. 
SEND YOUR ORDER EARLY. Take time now to go carefully through the entire Catalogue and make out your order for 
your full requirements for the entire year’s plantings, for many varieties may be sold out early. Since early last fall there have 
been large orders in great numbers coming in from foreign countries. 
HOW TO SEND CASH. Send either Post Office Money Order, Check, or Express Money Order for amounts above 50 cts., 
and stamps for less amounts. However, send whichever is most convenient to you. If cash, have it registered; if Money Order, be 
sure to have it made payable at Harrisburg, Pa. 
WE PAY THE POSTAGE, Express, or Freight on all Garden Seeds and Flower Seeds at the prices quoted in this Catalogue, 
to all points in the United States. We send them whichever way is cheapest. Be sure to give your nearest express or freight station. 
NON-WARRANTY. Walter S. Schell, Inc., give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness 
or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or plants they sell and will not be responsible for the crop. If the customer does not 
accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned and the amount paid for them will be refunded. 
ASPARAGUS 
HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS.—One ounce of seed will pro¬ 
duce about 200 plants. I will furnish a special Leaflet with full 
directions for preparing the bed, how to set the roots, etc., free to 
all my customers who ask for it. Plant in early spring. 
For your home-garden, 50 roots will plant a space 25 feet long 
and 6 feet wide; 100 roots, 50 feet by 6 feet; 8,000 roots per acre, 
1 Yi feet apart, in rows, 3 feet between the rows. 
Mam Washington Rust-Resistant 
Now more popular and more widely grown than any other. It pro¬ 
duces large, beautiful, straight, dark green, tender shoots of the most 
delicious flavor. 
Large Two-Year-Old Roots of Genuine Mary Washington. 
Doz. 50 cts. (postpaid 60 cts.); 50 roots $1.35 (postpaid $1.65); 
lOOroots $2.25 (postpaid $2.65); 1,000 for $10.50; 5,000 for $50. 
Seed of Mary Washington. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; }^lb. 30 cts.; 
lb. 75 cts.; 5 lbs. at 70 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs. at 65 cts. per lb.; 
25 lbs. at 60 cts. per lb. 
BORECOLE or KALE 
Sow in July for fall use and in September for spring use. 
One ounce will produce about 5,000 plants 
Schell’s Dwarf Curled Blue Scotch or Extra Curled 
(also known as “Jamaica” and as “Bloomsdale Kale”). 
This Kale is of a dark bluish green color without yellow¬ 
ing, even after several days of shipping. It grows to a 
large size. Very hardy and passes through the severest 
winters without being harmed. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; 
}4ib. 35 cts.; lb. 90 cts.; 5 lbs. at 85 cts. per lb. 
Dwarf Siberian. A dwarf grower, with large, broad leaves, 
slightly curled at the edges. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; 
Jilb. 25 cts.; lb. 70 cts.; 10 lbs. $6.50. 
Dwarf Green Curled Scotch or Dwarf German. The 
leaves are very curiy, bright green, tender, and of delicate 
flavor. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; }^.b. 30 cts.; lb. 80 cts. 
Mr. I. A. Gashaw, Pa., gets much bigger yield. He 
writes, “Your Schell’s Big Yielder Oats produced 20 bushels 
more per acre than our other Oats.” 
WALTER S. SCHELL, Inc. • Quality Seeds . HARRISBURG, PA. 
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