
FOOD for Health... FLOWERS for Pleasure 
Giese by the Federal Government, the Gardens for Defense 
Movement will play an important part in guarding the health of 
the nation in the years immediately ahead. 
Make sure that your family has plenty of the essential garden foods 
by planting the kind of a garden which will produce the foods you need. 
Fresh. vegetables, grown in city or farm gardens, will defend your 
family against the shortages produced by wartime needs in this country 
and abroad. Further, shipping facilities may be badly disrupted making 
it difficult to obtain the essential fresh vegetables needed in guarding 
our health. 
Here are some suggestions for the most useful Defense Garden: 
Keep your head! Avoid the hysteria experienced in World War No. 
1 Garden Program where front lawns, garden borders, golf courses were 
plowed up and planted to food crops. It was not necessary and proved 
a grave mistake and produced a serious seed shortage. Plant wisely. 
Don’t ruin the beauty of your home. Ample space can be found in the 
backyard to produce the health giving fresh vegetables. Improve the 
beauty of your home by planting flowers which will prove a delightful 
hobby in these trying times. Plant only the food crops and flowers that 
you can properly take care of. Grow wisely—grow a variety. 
Get the most out of your Defense Garden. Use good seeds so that the 
space, time, and effort you invest will give you a profitable return. 
Vary your crops. Grow plenty of the foods you need and like, but 
vary them so that you won’t have too many of any one vegetable. 
Concentrate on the vitamin-producers! Protect your family by grow- 
ing the green and yellow vegetables which contain the most of the 
precious vitamins required in the diet. 
Be ready! Plant and plant early for whatever may come! 
Prices: 
HOW TO ORDER OLDS’ SEEDS: 
REMITTANCES. We will be responsible for all money sent us 
through the mail if remittance is made by postoffice money order or ex- 
press order, draft or registered letter. We will accept personal checks 
at face value. Small amounts, less than 50c, may usually be sent safely 
in postage stamps or coin, but be sure you register the letter. We prefer 
five-cent stamps. 
MAKE USE OF THE ORDER SHEET appearing in the back of this 
book. If you have occasion to write us later regarding the order be sure 
to give the post-office address under which it was mailed or the number 
of the order. 
WE ACKNOWLEDGE ORDERS promptly when received. If any part 
of the order is mailed right out, that answers as an acknowledgment or 
if the goods can be sent at once by freight or express we ship right out, 
sending acknowledgment and notice of shipment at the same time en- 
elosing bill of lading. 
POSTPAID PRICES. All garden seed prices, except the Market Gar- 
deners’ Wholesale Prices are postpaid prices and include free trans- 
portation anywhere in U. S. proper. Add 10c per lb. extra postage on 
all foreign orders over 4 ozs. PRICES ON FIELD SEEDS, POTATOES 
AND SIDE LINES DO NOT INCLUDE TRANSPORTATION UNLESS 
QUOTED POSTPAID. See table of Parcel Post Rates on Order Blank. 
WE SEND LARGE SHIPMENTS BY FREIGHT, unless otherwise in- 
All prices quoted in this book are subject to change and to 
stocks being unsold upon receipt of the order. 
structed. We have three railroads here at Madison: C. & N. W., C. M. 
St. Gob. and lc. 
C, O. D. SHIPMENTS. Perishable items, such as plants and nursery 
stock, can not be sent C. O. Other things will be sent that way if 
desired, providing one-fourth of the amount accompanies the order. 
L.L. OLDS SEED CO. 
1888 




SINCE 


SEED SCARCITIES MAKE 
PROMPT ORDERS IMPORTANT 
has been watch- 

For fifty-four years this company 
ing over the grower’s interests to make sure that 
the individual home gardener, the farmer, and the 
commercial gardener all get the most out “of their 
gardening efforts. , es 
This year, there is a very serious shortage of veg- 
etable seeds and many varieties are practically crop 
failures. We feel obliged to tell our customers how 
the stiuation looks to us. d ‘ 
Onion seed—The situation here is precarious. pe 
wet, cold spring rotted the bulbs in the ground with 
unfavorable weather and growing eonditions and a 
serious infestation of insects brought about an al- 
most complete crop failure. Not a single pound of 
some varieties was harvested while others brought 
only from ten to fifteen per eent normal yields. 
Carrots, beets, and cabbage were also badly _dam- 
aged by the cold, wet spring and only about a 50 per 
cent crop at the most is available. 
Cucumbers and melons—haiistorms, an early frost, 
and insect infestations cut the crop materially, and 
large acreages had to be abandoned. From twenty to 
fifty per cent of a normal crop will be harvested. 
These are just a few of the most serious shortages. 
Most all vegetable seeds will be in less than normal 
supply, and with the increased garden program 
brought about by the war, there is, in our opinion, 
going to develop by spring a serious shortage of many 
varieties of seeds. 
Naturally, we’re doing our best to protect our cus- 
tomers. We will continue to save you money on your 
seeds, and take care of your orders as long as our 
stocks will permit, and all seeds are covered by the 
Olds’ Triple Guarantee shown below. Our laboratory 
tests are being made with the utmost care. 
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OUR ADVICE IS THIS; 
Buy promptly—buy 
wisely—buy the seeds you'll 
need in 1942 NOW. And for better seeds and serv- 
ice, order from OCLDS! 

L. L. OLDS SEED CO., MADISON, WIS. | 
Olds’ Triple GUARANTEE 
QUALITY... guarantee the quality of 
all the items offered in this book to the ex- 
tent that should they not prove as represented or you 
are not entirely satified, we will refill the order or 
return the money; but we give no further warranty, 
express or implied, as to description, quality, pro- 
ae Mou or a other matter of any seeds, pota- 
+S, Ss or plants we sen i iS 
sponsible for the crop. ond out snd Wa 
E> SAFE ARRIVAL .,,. 
; everything to arrive in good order. 
is any trouble, however, bags torn or anything else 
“dso Hye pave this motea on the freight expense Dill 
must be sent us with the bill of lading, if ship- 
ment was sent you by freight, mask i 
B> CAREFUL ATTENTION ,. .. 
ders and remittances are 
2 i ; s promptly acknowl- 
panes and letters of inquiry personally and courteous- 
y answered, as a rule the same day they are received. 
MADISON, WIS. 
guarantee 
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