

HARRIS SEEDS FOR 1941 
W: TAKE PLEASURE in presenting this, our 
sixty-first annual catalogue. Over sixty years 
of just selling seeds would mean nothing, but 
with us it represents over sixty years of prog- 
ress. Progress in breeding and growing im- 
proved strains of vegetables and flowers for 
those who grow for pleasure and profit. 
We have made remarkable progress along 
these lines in the past twenty or twenty-five 
years, and now as you plan your garden, no 
matter what you wish to grow, you can turn 
these pages and select strains of finer quality, 
earlier maturity and greater yield, than was 
possible to grow a few years ago. 
It is natural that most popular vegetables 
have shown the greatest improvement. Take 
for example, sweet corn. With the introduction 
of the new hybrid sweet corns and the improved 
open pollinated kinds, we are able to give you 
true, heavy yielding varieties of the finest 
quality from the first tender ears you pick 
until frost. And no one need have, sour, watery 
tomatoes. From the earliest to the latest kinds, 
there are new improved varieties of finest 
quality so that anyone can have large, solid, 
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Fred Rath, Joe Harris and Carl Warren (Left to Right) 
comparing sweet corn varieties in our trial grounds, 
luscious tomatoes all thru the season. 
Our improved strains of muskmelons pro- 
duce fruit of such uniformly fine flavor that 
no one need be satisfied to grow poor melons 
any more. 
This catalogue is full of these and many 
other improved vegetables, and the best of the 
old ones too. (We still can’t beat Scotia beans 
for flavor, and we’ve grown them over fifty 
years.) Many of these are of our own breeding 
and growing and all have been grown and 
carefully tested on our own farm. Our descrip- 
tions are not guesswork, but the results of our 
own careful observations, here on our own 
farm, and on those of our customers. 
And don’t forget the flowers; we are large 
erowers of the fine large flowering, sure bloom- 
ing varieties of today and the favorite older 
kinds. 
Whatever vegetables or flowers you desire 
to grow in your garden, you can find the best 
kinds on these pages, and you can be sure your 
garden with Harris’ Seeds will produce the 
finest vegetables and most beautiful flowers 
grown. 
IMPORTANT STEP IN PRODUCING GOOD SEED! 
Tuts pooro taken on Moreton Farm last summer, 
illustrates one of the most important steps in producing 
good seed. Here in our sweet corn trials, we have 
grown many new and improyed stocks in rows side by 
side with our standard varieties. These men are com- 
paring them for earliness, uniformity, size, yield etc. 
We check each kind for tenderness and flavor too and 
even take them home to try on our own tables. 
All over our farm are similar trial plots of other 
vegetables and flowers. Every lot of vegetable and 
flower seed we sell, and many new kinds are thus 
grown and carefully compared each year. This helps 
us not only to choose vegetables of the best quality 
and flavor, but it enables us to select those kinds best 
suited to our Northern climate. 
We often wish that our customers, could visit our 
farms, and see our seed crops growing and examine 
our breeding plots and these always interesting trial 
grounds. You will be most cordially welcomed if you 
can stop in and see us. 

