Growers and Distributors of 
WESTERN GROWN GARDEN SEEDS | 
This is our thirty-first annual issue of our seed book. If you have planted Gold Seal Seeds 
before, you know that they are reliable and tested. You can buy Gold Seal Seeds with the 
assurance that they are carefully grown, handled and are of very high quality. 
Vegetable Seed is a very important department in our business. Good vegetable seed 
was the foundation on which The Western Seed Company business was built—in fact, 
the first three years Vegetable Seeds were the only kind of seeds we sold and today we 
are one of the foremost and leading Vegetable Seed handlers in America. This is due to: 
ALL-AMERICA (iS) SELECTIONS 
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Where this insignia appears 
in this catalog it indicates 
the varieties so marked are 
proven new _ introductions of 
merit and have received an 
award in the All-America Selec- 
_ tions Trials. 
1 Our consistent policy of quality. 
Our advantageous position as large growers and shippers of all kinds 
2 of vegetables, enabling us to know the best strains and varieties adapted 
to our western country. 
3 Our constant testing of the seeds we sell, for purity, germination and 
adaptability to this western country. 
ASPARAGUS SEED 

We Recommend Only Those We Know to 
CULTURE: Sow seed thick in rows 20 inches 
apart. Use plenty of water for the seed has 
BEANS 
a hard hull. After the plants start growing 
do not cultivate as this will injure the roots. 
The following spring the roots must be dug, 
separated and transplanted in the field or 
garden, making trenches about 4 inches deep, 
6 inches wide; place roots, crown up, 20 inches 
apart. Leave the rows 3\% feet apart. If you 
do not care to wait and raise your own roots 
we can supply you with two-year-old roots 
of the varieties listed below. 
MARY WASHINGTON. (Re-selected.) Very 
productive. Best rust resistant strain, se- 
lected by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Produces rich, thick, dark green stalks, 
CULTURE: 
1 Ib., 100 feet; 60 lbs. to an acre. 
GREEN PODDED BEANS 
BOUNTIFUL or EARLY SIX WEEKS. 49 
days. Is the earliest of the green varieties, 
A very productive bean, pods are about 
tinted darker at tips. It is the earliest 5 inches long, straight, handsome, 
and fastest growing variety. rather light green and flat and of good 
(Pkt. 5c) (oz. 10c) (Y% Ib. 25c) (Ib. 90c). 2 ie tagged quality. Is very 

EARLY GIANT FRENCH ARGENTEUIL. 
(Gold Seal Quality.) The best of the 
European varieties. Does very well in 
western territory and a very heavy 
yielder. Dark green 
large shoots. 
(Pkt. 5c) (oz. 10c) (14 
Ib. 25c) (Ib. 75c). 
popular on East- 
ern Markets. 
| STRINGLESS BLACK 
VALENTINES. 
Sl days. Well 
adapted to Colo- 
rado and is of es- 
pecially fine vari- 
ety in that they 
are stringless, of 





good texture, 
about 5% inches 
long, almost 
round, very pro- 
ductive and stur- 
dy grower, quite 

resistant to field 
Re-Selected diseases. 
Washington LANDRETH STRING- 
LESS. 52 days. Is 
in reality a great- 
ly improved Bur- 
pee’s Siringless. 
Pods are longer, 
slightly more 
round, flesh more 
ARTICHOKES 
CULTURE: In February or March sow and 
transplant in hotbeds uniil the danger of frost 
is over. Set in very rich, well drained soil in 
tows 4 feet apart and 2 feet apart in row. 
Plants can be raised in seed beds outdoors, 
but will not produce heads the first year. tender, less fib- 
Jerusalem Artichokes should be planted and rous, and no 
cultivated like potatoes. strings. Is a 15 
GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKES. Are cullti- 
vated for their cone heads, which are 
cooked like asparagus. Plants set in 
any good soil, with light covering in 
winter, will remain in bearing several 
years. Cultivation limited in this section. it a 
(Pkt. 10c) (oz. 30c) (%4 Ib. $1.00) (Ib. $3.75). we 
Tendergreen 
per cent heavier 
yielder than Bur- 
pee’s and a good 
shipping variety. 
FULL MEASURE. 
(Gold Seal Qual- 
ity.) 54 days. One 
JERUSALEM or POTATO ARTICHOKE. A Stitheroes of the finest beans 
dandy hog feed, heavy bearer. See All-America Selections  thatcan be grown 
page 32. Gold Medal because, besides 
Be tHleavy Producers 
Beans must not be planted until danger of frost is past and the soil is BH 
warm. Plant in rows 18 to 30 inches apart for hand cultivation, or 2% to 3 feet apart for field 
culture. Space the seed 2 to 3 inches apart in the row and cover with 1 to 2 inches of soil. 
a continuous supply make sowings every 2 weeks until 10 weeks before the first expected 
Beans are more delicious and bear longer when picked before fully matured. Give fre- 
quent and shallow cultivation until blossoms appear. A packet will plant about 25 feet of row; 
Full Measure 
being absolutely stringless, the texture of 
the pod never grows coarse but remains 
tender and meaty after the bean is fully 
matured. Pods 6 to 6% inches long, 
round, straight and firm. 
TENDERGREEN or ASGROW STRING- 
LESS. 54 days. Pods are 6 to 6% 
inches long, being absolutely stringless, 
straight, round, dark green, meaty and 
free from fibre and remain in this condi- 
tion longer than any other variety. We 
have found this variety quite resistant to 
blight and other diseases and recommend 
it for main crop. 
GIANT STRINGLESS. 55 days. Exceeding- 
ly productive and very hardy. Light 
green stringless pod 6 inches in length, 
round, and fairly straight. 

2 THE WESTERN SEED COMPANY, DENVER, COLORADO 
