
Large acreage growing is essential for adequate variety 
and maintainance of quality and a reliable supply. This 
field of one HARROLD PEDIGREED variety shows the 
scope of our production. We grow Pansies by the acre. 
QUALITY GRADES 
With HARROLD’S PEDIGREED STRAIN PANSIES, we have 
for several years followed an unusual procedure. Usually a grower 
offers a single commercial grade of his product and lets it go at that. 
In our breeding operations it is of course necessary for us to keep 
from a year to five years ahead of commercial growing. Our success 
in producing breeding stock lead us several years ago to the first 
offering of what we term our Pedigreed Quality seeds. 
HARROLD’S PEDIGREED QUALITY SEEDS 
This grade is a super selection from our breeding department. 
It is easily a year ahead of our commercial growing operations and 
is grown by a process similar to our breeding stock which we use in 
our own future commercial production. Cost of producing this seed is 
of course much higher than a standard commercial stock and quant- 
ity is very limited. We do not recommend this Pedigreed Quality 
seed except to the grower who wants the very finest stock available: 
and where the price of seeds is a secondary object. Under these 
conditions this grade is to be recommended. 
HARROLD’S STANDARD QUALITY SEEDS 
This quality is our regular commercial production and about 
98% of our crop is composed of this quality. It is the quality which 
most growers normally offer and is priced in compitition with other 
stock of similar quality. It is suitable for growing the finest plants 
for general use and will be found entirely satisfactory for this. We 
suggest consideration of the Pedigreed Quality described above, 
only in the most exacting conditions. 
WHAT VARIETY SHOULD BE USED? 
Frequantly this question is ask and its answer must be confined. 
to the individual case and preference if a true and satisfactory 
answer is to be given. It would be much simpler if we could breed 
one variety that would be universal in application. Some growers 
claim to have accomplished this, but experience leads us to believe 
that they are far too optimistic. There are so many factors involved, 
many of which are based upon personal and local conditions; even 
color sensitivity and preference often is a deciding factor, that no 
single variety is going to please everyone. 
It was upon the realization of this fact years ago that we set 
out to develope, modernize and diversify our Pansy line—both 
HARROLD’S PEDIGREED BRED VARIETIES and the standard 
commercial group. This has resulted in our stock being one of the 
most complete in America and probably the most modern as we have 
introduced more new Pansies from our gardens in the past fifteen 
years than any other American grower. We feel certain that our line 
is so complete that we can logically and truthfully say that we can 
supply every Pansy requirement as nearly as any other source can. 
Possibly as completely as any combination of other sources. 
Based upon our own seed and plant sales records we find our 
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