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GARDEN SEEDS 
In presenting our garden seeds on the following pages, we offer you some splendid 
varieties, the seed of which we have grown and harvested ourselves. There is not a 
wide variety of seeds, but you will find quality in them all. 
We are specialists in the production of cantaloupe seed and take great pride in the 
quality and purity of our cantaloupe seed. We feel that time and experience have 
proven that we lead all others in offering the newest and best varieties in our special 
field. As farmers, however, you well know that it is impossible to limit your farm to a 
single crop. We meet the same situation here at Rocky Ford, and are forced to grow 
other crops besides our specialty of cantaloupes. With this condition prevailing, we 
decided years ago to take advantage of this situation, and utilize the remaining por- 
tion of our farming activities in the growing of other garden seeds. All of the garden 
seed listed on the following pages have been grown by ourselves on our own farms. 
While the list is not large, it is a select group of vegetables of standard varieties of 
proven worth. 
Among the cucumbers offered, you will note two comparatively new varieties, 
the A. & C. and the Taxpayer, that are as fine as can be developed. The other varieties 
listed are all ones that have stood the test of time and experience because of their 
splendid merit. The tomato varieties listed on pages 26 and 27 are both old standard 
kinds and new improved strains. Our tomato seed this season was of exceptional 
quality. Among the beans offered, we wish to call your attention particularly to the 
Hopi Indian bean, asking you to read the description on page 28, and if you have not 
grown it before to try it this season. 
On page 31 are two of our offerings that we feel merit your attention: Sweet 
Spanish onions and Sunburst pop corn. Long years of very careful selective work have 
developed both of these to a point that is not exceeded by any other seed that it is 
possible to secure. Each winter for fifteen years we have made careful selections in 
our onion seed bulbs, planting only the most desirable bulbs of the best size, color and 
keeping qualities. Our yields of marketable onions demonstrate the success of this 
selective work. We know that you will be unable to find better onion seed anywhere. 
With our Sunburst pop corn seed, careful tests on yield, popping qualities, and size of 
the ear have produced a pop corn of exceptional quality. Here again we feel that we 
are offering an unusual opportunity for you to take advantage of long years of seed 
breeding. 
Your order of the vegetable seeds listed on the following pages will receive our 
prompt and careful attention. These are standard varieties and we have taken care to 
see that they meet exacting requirements of quality and purity. You will find them as 
good as it is possible for you to buy anywhere. 

ROCKY FORD CANTALOUPE SEED —— 
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