PLEASE READ BEFORE ORDERING 
(Being Conditions of Sale) 
Seeds and bulbs are forwarded as ready. All seeds, but 
not actual bulbs or live plants, are postpaid. Safe arrival 
is guaranteed. Goods are offered subject to arrival or 
harvest. All previous prices are withdrawn. 
I try to send out only good seeds, but I cannot control 
the conditions under which they are planted. I give no 
warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, pro- 
ductiveness, or any other matter of any seeds, bulbs, or 
plants I sell, and I will not be responsible for the crop. 
Please remit by postal money order if you can. It is a 
thoroughly safe and inexpensive way of sending money, 
convenient for both the buyer and the seller. We will, 
though, accept personal checks in instances where it hap- 
pens not to be easy to get a postal order, providing an 
additional ten cents (not 10%) is added to whatever amount 
would otherwise be that of the check. This ten cents covers 
our office costs in connection with receipt of check remit- 
tances, the fee that our bank charges for handling the 
check, ete. Sometimes actual currency is enclosed with 
orders. That’s fully safe if letter is registered, but when 
it is not registered. there is some slight risk of loss, a risk 
that is definitely the remitter’s. 
A minimum order size must be set, for due to fixed 
charges and packing costs, we lose money on orders beicw 
certain amounts. No order should call for less than 50c 
worth of seeds, nor, if it includes plants, for less than 
$1.00 worth of them. In this yeckoning, bulbs may be con- 
sidered as plants. 
About certain taxes that are, or may be, in effect when 
your order comes in: please include in your remittance the 
amount due on your purchase in any applicable tax, 
whether State or Federal. This includes any sales, use, 
compensating or other taxes of similar nature that may 
have been, or may be, enacted, that would apply on such 
purchases. 
REX. D. PEARCE 
Moorestown New Jersey 
WE GROW SEEDS, producing on our own Old Orchard 
Seed Farm at Moorestown in southern New Jersey, the 
seeds of an actual majority of the kinds that we catalog. 
When you buy from us, you are dealing first hand with a 
seed grower, not just with a seed merchant who must buy 
from others most of the seeds that he sells. Of course we 
get some of our kinds from other good growers, too, for 
one can’t grow everything in one place or in one climate, 
but we rather think, though we don’t know how we would go 
about proving it, that we produce a larger proportion of the 
flower seeds that we sell than does any other seed-house 
selling at retail in comparable volume. We produce a large 
part of our plants and bulbs, too, and a rapidly increasing 
proportion of our vegetable seeds. Vegetable seeds offered 
in this catalog that were produced on our seed farm in- 
clude varieties of Tomato, Pepper, Cucumber, Radish, Bean, 
Sweet Corn, Cress and Dill, and we have fine selected root 
stocks ready for next season’s seed production in the better 
varieties of Onion, Beet, Carrot, Turnip, Rutabaga, Salsify, 
and Parsnip, and shall be growing seeds also of Lettuce and 
Spinach. In this we are utilizing the very considerable 
experience that I had many years ago in the commercial 
production of vegetable seeds in Idaho, Washington and 
Wisconsin. We know how to grow good seeds, and we do 
grow good seeds. 
CONDENSED INDEX 
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BULBS *(atid*their<seeds)iSc12.) yes ee 38 
LAW INE GRASS toe te. eee ee a a 20 
ANNUAL FEO WHRSOi seeds) "ecg ee oe ee Zit 
ANNUAL FLOWERS (planta): .J¢ =. 20 
HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWERS (ineluding 
PAYS «Mies Pee ne ee ee ae Bee el XN) 
HOUSE PLANTS (and their seeds)... x oP: Wa, 
na BSW OS Beene Beak be” bers er OR Ree gE are ied ay ir 
DRISHS 2 2S Ey Seen doy Pe tees ee. ae Staal eet “ 36 
HIG A COEDS i tbe re ei ites Ms . 46 
WEDD PLO WRG (yaa ee ae ee er ey : 35 
TREE AND SHRUB SEEDS.............2.............2..... 66 
DA TINEA GUT eae eee r 66 
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lilustration shows crisp, juicy strips of Celtuce or 
Celery-Lettuce ready for eating with salt, or for 
serving in a salad. 
GARDEN DELICACIES 
A bit away from the ordinary, from the usual run of 
home garden produce, are the kinds so briefly described 
here, all truly garden delicacies, rightly grown. Serve them 
fresh from your garden, crisp, unwilted, and you will call 
them table luxuries, at least compared to the shipped vege- 
tables, of sorts sometimes better adapted to that purpose 
than to eating, which you have suffered before. These 
lesser known, lesser grown kinds are no harder tc handle 
in your garden than are the old stand-bys, but much more 
exciting and interesting. Here’s for new flavors. BUSH 
LIMA RED WONDER has much of the rich, fine flavor 
that makes the Red Kidney bean desirable. Maroon-colored 
seeds. CHINA CABBAGE CHIHLI is not a Cabbage at all, 
but a botanically distinct vegetable that yields rolled heads 
of crisp-blanched salad leaves. CURLED CRESS gives 
finely curled leaves of piquant taste, for salads or sand- 
wiches. BROCCOLI CALABRESE most people know, but 
from buying it, not growing it. Grow your own. It’s better 
that way, and easy. TOMATO ITALIAN CANNER is 
very different from the usual; with long, narrow, firm 
fruits. For Tomato paste, canning whole, or eating with 
salt in lunches. CHICORY WITLOOF makes roots that are 
forced in dark (cellar) to form tight, white, salad heads. 
FINNOCHIO is grown for the bulb-like succulent stem 
bases that are earth-blanched and cooked. Flavor distinct, 
in reminder of an aromatic, sweeter Celery. KOHLRABI 
grows a smooth “bulb” quite above ground that has 2 
delicate flavor on Cauliflower order, but we think, better, 
and certainly it is easier to grow. CELERIAC is a type 
of Celery grown for the enlarged root that is served as 
salad or cooked. True Celery flavor, but easier than regular 
Celery. TENDERGREEN is a rather new Chinese vege- 
table. Brassica perviridis, that yields excellent greens of 
distinctive quality. SUGAR-PEAS have sweet, waxy, crispy 
pods, and are eaten when young. pods and all, like snap 
beans. CELERY LETTUCE or CELTUCE grows tall, and 
the thick, brittle center-stem is used in salads, or as Celery, 
or variously cooked. For fuller descriptions and separate 
prices, see the VEGETABLE section of this catalog, start- 
ing on page 5. Or for ONE DOLLAR we will send a full 
size packet of seeds of each of the above twelve kinds. Order 
as OFFER 1A93. No changes made in list when supplied 
as a collection. 
A NEW MEXICAN CENTAUREA 
Immense lace-like flowers, perhaps largest in Centaurea, 
quite usually up to five inches, not uncommonly up to 51x 
inches of diameter. The blossoms have big cream-colored 
center cushions, each with a wide and airy fringe of slender 
marginal florets in a delightful tone of lilac-lavender. The 
plants grow 50 inches or more, sturdy, branching, and they 
are loaded with bloom from late June well into August. 
It is biennial, which simply means that you plant the seeds 
this year for next year’s flowers. You can sow as late as 
mid-August though, and have plants that will be large 
enough to winter through and bloom freely the next sum- 
mer. It is Centaurea Rothrocki. “x” culture. Pkt. 15ce. 
