50tU AnnioeMxztui 
1891—Serving Western Planters—1941 
To My Many Friends and Customers: 
I take this opportunity of greeting you, and extend my best 
wishes for a most prosperous 1941. Since it is impossible to meet 
you all face to face, which I would very much like to do, let us just 
chat for a few moments across the pages of this catalog, a catalog 
which I trust will be of interest to you. 
From horse and buggy days, down to today’s streamlined auto- 
mobiles, I have been actively associated in the seed business; fifty 
years of enthusiastic effort, with its ever-changing conditions, right 
up to the present; a time when you can place your orders by mail 
with as much confidence as being able to personally select the mer¬ 
chandise you require. 
Let me tell you what the retail seed store of fifty years ago was 
like. Probably shelves, with labeled jars; bins, sacks with the tops 
turned down. Catalogs were small, mostly price lists, and when 
illustrated used wood cuts, made by hand, or drawings. Surely, it 
required a fine imagination to picture in your mind what the results 
would be! 
Those “good old days” were the days of specialists. In business, 
a drug store was a drug store. You purchased your groceries in a 
grocery store. You bought your meats from a butcher shop. The 
seed store sold seeds. When you went to town, or went out of town, 
you hitched up Old Nell, and figured on an all-day trip. 
Contrast that with 1941—miles in minutes and your every need 
anticipated. Just like in many other lines of business, the seed busi¬ 
ness is more than that—it is divided up into many departments, all 
for your convenience and completeness of service. 
This has been a development down through the years; my own 
50 years of experience in the Seed and Nursery business in Colorado 
being supplemented by that of my department heads, Key Members 
of THE COLORADO SEED COMPANY organization. 
C. R. ROOT, President 
The Colorado Seed Company 
Our position, therefore, in our chosen business is better than ever before; we will continue to strive onward and 
upward, thereby meriting your orders; not only do we desire your business for 1941, but for many years to come. 
Sincerely yours, rN * 
MUoUl New- *1* 
FLOWER NOVELTIES 
MARIGOLD, MISSION GIANTS MIXED. 18 inches. 
The blooms, which measure from 4 to 5 inches in diam¬ 
eter, are almost a perfect ball, reminding one of the Giant 
Incurved Chrysanthemum. The colors are true Marigold 
colors of deep, medium and golden orange and bright 
lemon. The great number of small florets that go to 
make up the huge blooms are tubular except near the 
top where the tube seems to separate into five miniature 
ribbon-like parts that curl and twist to form a perfect 
ball-shaped incurved flower. Pkt., 25c. 
MARIGOLD, SPRY. (All-America Selections Silver 
Medal.) Extra dwarf, double French type; compact and 
uniform, so may be used for edging. About 9 inches tall, 
early blooming with very light orange-crested center and 
maroon outer petals. Pkt., 25c. 
PETUNIA, BLUE BROCADE. (All-America Selections 
Silver Medal.) A dwarf all-double fringed type, true 
violet-blue, stocky growth, flowers immense in size. An 
achievement in the All-Double Class. Pkt., $ T 
PETUNIA, SUPER FLUFFY RUFFLES SALMON- 
ROSE. Ruffled and frilled so that the flowers have the 
appearance of being double. As the name indicates the 
color is salmon-rose with a golden throat. Pkt., 50c. 
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The Answer to the Gardener's Quest for Something 
Different and Exciting for Flower Bed or Border 
PETUNIA, RADIANCE. (All-America Selections Silver 
Medal.) A very brilliant rose with brown-veined yel¬ 
lowish throat. Blooms early and profusely, uniform 
height and branches nicely. Flowers 1% to 2 inches 
across. Pkt., 25c. 
PHLOX GIGANTEA, ROSY MORN. (All-America 
Selections Bronze Medal.) Single annual, of brilliant 
rose with a white eye. Extra large flowered, free bloomer. 
12 inches tall. Pkt., 25c. 
SCABIOSA, PEACE. (All-America Selections Honorable 
Mention.) White flowers fully double, 1% inches across, 
beehive-shaped on 6 to 8-inch stems. Pkt., 25c. 
SWEET WILLIAM, DWARF ALPINE MIXED. Of uni¬ 
form habit, each plant is about the same height and 
circumference. The blossoms almost cover the foliage. 
Excellent for a border, pot plant and the rockery. 
Mixed colors. Pkt., 25c. 
ZINNIA, BLACK RUBY. (Bronze Medal All-America 
Selections.) Deep velvety maroon, Lilliput type. Dis¬ 
tinct color, lJ4-inch flowers on long stems. 18 inches 
tall. Pkt., 25c. 
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