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FROM YOUR OWN GARDEN 
Do you know the thrill of cooking and eating vegetables freshly picked from 
your own garden? It’s wonderful ! But better still, did you ever pick your own 
vegetables and cook them out of doors—on your own outdoor grill or fireplace 
—with friends and neighbors gathered around ? There’s an experience that 
you will never forget. You will want to repeat it time and again—-and so will 
your guests—all of them. 
Ears of Corn carefully selected while on the stalk . . . 
then immediately husked before any of the luscious vitamins 
can escape . . . husked down to the last thin final layers 
. . . and then roasted outdoors, with perhaps a rasher of 
crisp bacon on the side and plenty melted butter ! Such a 
feast for Epicures ! ! Yes, your friends will positively 
“rave” about your marvelous cooking and the wonders of 
your vegetable garden. Peas—sweet, tender and succulent, 
Lima Beans perhaps, or freshly-dug “spuds” given a rub 
and a scrub, and then cooked to a turn in their paper-thin, 
nut-brown, jackets ! Tiny raw Carrots, Cress and Radishes 
as appetizers, Lettuce and Tomatoes . . . they are all 
different when the interval of “garden to you” is reduced 
to seconds and minutes instead of hours and days. 
Yes, raise your own vegetables—there’s nothing quite like it 
in satisfaction, new-tempoed hospitality, and even economy. 
GROW VEGETABLES IN YOUR OWN HOME GARDEN—LIFE TAKES ON NEW MEANING 
NOVELTIES, SPECIALTIES, IMPROVED STRAINS, ETC. 
What 2>o *7hey Mean to- you? 
Frankly, we have been trying to find out just what the 
average garden-makers reaction to vegetable seed novelties 
is. Many of the answers we have received are a surprise, 
as well as a great source of satisfaction to us. From the 
hundreds and hundreds of check-ups, we have developed a 
new thought in catalog making. We find that everyone likes 
to be kept up-to-date. We find that many people are truly 
progressive, but there exists a hesitation in trying new 
things, the true values of which are unproved, unknown. 
We believe in progress. We think that new things should 
be introduced and grown. We think that old things should 
be discarded if new and better things are available. There¬ 
fore, we have taken our vegetable seed list and pulled it 
apart, revised it, and brought it completely up-to-date. In 
the pages of vegetable seeds that follow, we have included 
all of the new things of recent introduction that we feel have 
been sufficiently tested to merit general cultivation. In 
other words, we have absorbed the new things into our gen¬ 
eral vegetable seed list. We have tried to reduce individual 
amateur experiment by first evaluating new things our¬ 
selves before recommending them. 
We ask that you carefully check through the following 
sixteen pages of vegetable items and note that all vegetable 
varieties considered by us to be of outstanding merit on 
the basis of quality, productivity, and plant habit, have 
been underlined. All of these underlined varieties are 
recommended by us without qualification. 
In making out your seed orders—-especially if you lack 
experience in vegetable growing—-we ask you to please con¬ 
sider our recommendations. On the other hand, do not 
hesitate to follow your own choice, when, through your 
own experience, you have discovered special varieties that 
have proven successful in your particular location and soil. 
Every vegetable variety that we list represents a strain of 
seed that is the best obtainable regardless of price or any¬ 
thing else. You may rely on Breck’s seeds—absolutely. 
REMEMBER —SeedU Ate *leded 
