To NM Yy \ friends 
“Proper self-discipline and self-culture will improve a man, but no method 
has yet been devised that will produce good crops from poor seeds.” 
Some one has said: 
All the care and attention to planting and cultivation that the best grower can 
give; all the experts in picking, packing and marketing cannot make good crops grow 
from poor seed. On the other hand, poor care and slack methods will not entirely ruin 
a crop grown from good seeds. 
The two most important factors in growing any crop is the Seed and the Seed Bed. 
The only thing that I can do about the seed bed is to impress upon you the necessity 
of giving most careful attention to this important phase of the work. All that you 
can do about the seed is to purchase your requirements from a responsible seedsman— 
one who makes a specialty of growing the seeds that he sells and who has devoted 
years of work and study to those particular items. Therefore, to secure a successful 
start the seedsman and the grower must cooperate to the very fullest extent. It is 
up to me to furnish the very best seed that it is possible to produce, seed that is 
bred to do the things that you expect it to do; it is up to you to give that seed the 
very best care and attention. Given a proper seed bed, the highest quality seed obtain- 
able, proper cultivation and care and the grower is on the right road to a successful 
crop, 
The same laws that govern the breeding of livestock also governs the breeding of 
seeds. It is a well known fact that pure bred animals are more profitable than scrubs, 
and the same holds true with seeds. It can be safely said that good seed must come 
from fields that have been grown exclusively for seed, fields that were planted with 
stock seed bred and selected for that purpose and true to name and type. Seeds 
saved from a commercial field will come from the poorest fruits in the field—for, 
very naturally, the best fruits will have been sent to market, leaving only the culls 
for seeding. 
“Jack of all trades is master of none” so I devote my entire time and business to 
doing the few things in which I specialize and which I know; the production of the 
very highest quality Cantaloupe, Muskmelon, Watermelon, Cucumber and Sweet 
Spanish Onion seeds. Nature has provided certain places to produce certain things. 
The Rocky Ford district; with its high altitude, warm sunshiny days and cool nights; 
has been found to produce seeds of these crops much superior, in vigor and early 
maturity, to any other place in the United States. These factors have resulted in 
the commercial growers looking to this district for their seeds. 
In order to furnish you with the best seed possible, I grow and harvest the seeds 
that I sell. I never buy seed on the open market or from farmers who have harvested 
their own crops. My fields are planted with stocks that, in many cases, have been 
bred from a single plant selection. At harvest time we go through my fields picking 
and piling the ripe fruits, selecting only those that are true to type and heavy yielding. 
My melons are all cut by hand, permitting a thorough inspection of each melon inside 
and out. If we find a single fruit that is not up to type or quality it is discarded. My 
seed is all washed in special washboxes with clear well water. When the seed is 
thoroughly washed it is placed on screens to dry in the open air. When thoroughly 
dry the seed is sacked and taken to the warehouse for milling, which takes out all 
the chaff and light seeds. Samples of each lot are taken for germination and check 
tests. I use every precaution to see that my seed is kept pure and unmixed. A “Lot 
Tag” follows every lot of seed from the time it is cut in the field until it is shipped 
to my customers. Nothing is left undone, or to chance, to make my seeds the very 
highest quality obtainable. 
My years of experience and my harvesting methods, together with the name of 
GARWOOD, are your assurance that you are getting the very best seed obtainable. 
I hope that you will use my seeds this year. I know that you will be satisfied with 
the results, hundreds of other commercial planters throughout the country have been. 
H. D. GARWOOD SEED COMPANY if. 
Rocky Ford, Colorado . Ale 
“The Home of the Cantaloupe.” 
Owner. 
Please read our “Suggestions” on page 22, before ordering. 
