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"BACK 
BACK SEED COMPANY 
58th Year . . . Established 1916 . . . Phone Prospect 707 
PEDER BACK, Sole Owner and Manager 
5010 Washington Avenue 
RACINE, WISCONSIN 
Growers...Dealers...Importers 
ASPARAGUS Oz. 
Martha Washington Rust Proof...... 15 
Mary Washington Rust Proof........ 15 
BEANS—BUSH WAX PODDED lb. 
Improved Golden Wax............-+- «15 
Pencil Pod Black Wax...........--.- 15 
RR Marya led W AX wile. oxelcteseunvsiewierers aie eleiars Lb 
Stringless Kidney Wax.............- 15 
BEANS—BUSH GREEN PODDED 
Giant Stringless Green Pod........... 15 
Stringless Black Valentine........... 15 
Bountiful Stringless ccc ns «ieee sence 15 
Ferry’s Plentitals < oc cis cvins. cle esgic 15 
endergYeer: cassie sarete che. oieela cial aracetetare - «lS 
Navy Beams iinet stile vines esi -10 
BEANS—BUSH LIMA 
Burpee’s Improved Lima............. 15 
Henderson’s Bush Lima.............. 15 
Fordhook Bush Lima..........-.---+-+- 15 
BEANS—POLE LIMA 
Kine of the Garden\y... >in eres 15 
BEANS—POLE 
Kentucky Wonder Green............- LS 
Kentucky Wonder Wax.............. 15 
Scarlet Runner Red Flowers.......... .20 
Duteh: Case Knit ncaa semis selene 15 
“BEETS—FOR TABLE Oz. 
Extra Early Egyptian..............-- .30 
Crosby’s Egyptian Select............. 30 
Detroit Dark Red Special............. 35 
Detroit Dark Red Select..........-... F545) 
Early Wonder Dark Red...........--. -30 
SWISS CHARD 
Tacs sie rasta aso he eres Greeters 25 
COW BEETS OR MANGELS 
Mammoth Long Red..........-.--+-- -20 
Golden Tankard—None. ; 
Danish Sludstrup Genuine—None. 
BROCCOLI 
Italian Green Sprouting ......... stetag ee 0. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Long Island Improved. dete eyelets f= ote -90 
CABBAGE—TESTED SEED 
1 Ib. 
40 
-40 
-40 
-40 
-40 
-15 
-50 
2.00 
3.25 
Lb. 
1.25 
1.25 
5 Ibs. 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.60 
90 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
1.50 
eee 
1.60 
Lb. - 
2.75 
2.75 
3.00 
3.00 
2.75 
1.75 
1.60 
The most Reliable, Purest, Tested, Proven and Best 
Strains to be had. Our Cabbage Seeds have been recog- 
nized THE BEST for the last twenty-five years. 
Golden Acre Genuine. Very Harly.... .90 
COPENHAGEN MARKET .......... -70 
BACK’S COPENHAGEN MARKET— 
Extra Select Early Strain........... ee o0 
2.50 
2.00 
8.95 
6.95 
7.95 
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1944 Seed Price List 

IMPORTANT NOTICE ON PRICES 
Owing to extraordinary conditions due to 
war, together with crop shortages and fail- 
ures, we urge you to buy early. 

Oz. 
BACK’S GLORY—Selected Strain .... .70 
BACK’S HOLLANDER— 
Own Strain, Selected—None. 
FERRY’S HOLLANDER— 
Own Strain, Selected—None. 
Danish Ballhead, Short Stem—None. 
Savoy Cabbage, Perfection .......... - 50 
Chinese or Celery Cabbage..........- +40 
Mammoth Rock Red, Select.......... .90 
Danish Dark Red Stonehead—None. 
First Prize Solid Dark Red—None. 
1.50 
1.25 
2.50 
5.00 
4.00 
8.95 
Racine, Wis., is known to the world as the home of Yel- 
lows Resistant Cabbage—All the varieties are: 
PROVEN YELLOWS RESISTANT 
Jersey Queen, Pointed Heads......... .70 
Early Detroit, Yellows Resistant...... -80 
Marion’s Market, Harly........++.-+- 10 
Wisconsin Globe, Round Heads....... -70 
Wisconsin, All Season..............-. -70 
Wisconsin Hollander or Imp. No. 8—None. 
Wisconsin Ball Head............+000. 1.00 
Improved Bugner ...... Beau e anise ® See LO 
Back’s American Shipper — America’s 
Best Late Hollander and Yellows 
Resistant Cabbage, Own Strain—None. 
Wisconsin Red Hollander.......... een ks LO. 
CARROTS 
Chantenay Red Cored, Select......... -40 
Early Chantenay, Select Strain....... -40 
Ox Heart, Shortinwec ca cemic comes -40 
Danvers Half Long, Extra............ 35 
Nantes, Improved Half Long, Select... .45 
Morse’s Bunching, Select............. 45 
Imperator, Select .......... ajarsteteeisicict La aO 
CAULIFLOWER—SUPER STRAIN 
CAULIFLOWER Super Strain. 
2.10 
2.25 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.75 
3.00 
3.00 
1.25 
1.25 
1.25 
1.00 
1.35 
1.35 
1.25 
7.25 
7.95 
6.95 
6.95 
6.95 
9.50 
11.00 
11.00 
4.00 
4.00 
4.00 
3.50 
4.25 
4,25 
4.00 
Our seeds come from 
the Champion Prize Grower in Denmark. None better. 
1% oz. 
Earliest Snowball, Select........... ome ess 
Snowdrift or White Mountain........ 1.90 
Danish Giant, or Dry Weather, Select.. 1.75 
New Super Snowball, Original Strain.. 1.90 
Dan-American, New Original Strain.. 2.00 
Oz. 
3.00 
8.25 
3.00 
3.25 
3.50 
SELECTED, TESTED NORTHERN GROWN 
Y% |b. 
11.00 
11.50 
11.00 
12.00 
13.00 
Sec. 562 P. L. 
POSTMASTER: Return Postage Guaranteed. 
CELERY 
& R. 
Our seeds are grown by America’s foremost Celery 
Breeder and we believe there is none better. 
Oz & lb. 
GOLDEN PLUME or Wonderful...... -90 2.50 
Summen Pascal .)s cies ole steele seicsic es 1.25 4.00 
Crisp: Hearty NeWracecicicocistee ess eitic sece -90 2.50 
New King Green, Extra.............-. 1.00 2.75 
Salt Lake-or -Uitalh sc ctetes:<coreiste ateisieisia rs -90 2.50 
Celeriac, Large Smooth Prague....... -70 2.00 
CHERVIL 
Dan: Extra Curled: 25x cccanteetesseecl.sl Pkt. 10e 
CHIVES 
Small Onion-like Plant..............: Pkt. 10¢ 
CRESS 
Curled or Pepper Grass.........+..+- Pkt. 10c 
Upland Cress ........... Stal sie afereiace stots Pkt. 10¢ 
CUCUMBER 
Chicago Pickling, Select............. -25 -60 
National’ Pickling \.\. caystsisisutrererssas.s 25 -60 
New Double Yield Pickle............. 25 -60 
“A & C’’, One of the Very Best....... 30 15 
Clarks (Special fe... stescasqiem eceielenie oe -25 -60 
Harly “White Spine: .:..,.scccyeis 0 0.04/10 25 60 
Early Fortune, Select................ -25 -60 
Davis Perfect << ssis.cele cleieietam satel vies 25 -60 
Improved Long Green................ 25 -65 
Ferry’s Special Long Green........... Dib 
Evergreen, White Spine............. 725 60 
Longfellow, one of the best........... .25 -60 
Straight-8, Select Strain.............. .30 75 
MGI OM eaters ne) taroiscoleug, eho NG axera eave eleia oi -30 -90 
Small) -Gerkin Wen sci «eeacene wens -385 95 
DILL 
Mammoth ery si ties <eaitinn sioae @rersieee 2 -20 -50 
Lb. 
9.00 
9.00 
10.00 
9.00 
7.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.50 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.00 
2.25 
__2.15 
2.00 
2.25 
2.50 
1.40 

IMPORTANT: 
MAIL ORDERS FILLED JUST AS CAREFULLY AS 
IF YOU CAME HERE YOURSELF. We pay postage. 
Let me quote you prices on large quantities of seeds. 
We can sell you as cheaply as anybody selling pure 
and reliable seeds. 

Dear Customers and Friends: 
I wish to thank our many customers and friends 
for their patronage. 
promise you the 
prices. 
I realize the great importance of good, 
I appreciate your business and 
best seeds obtainable at lowest 
reliable 
and honest seeds, having been a gardener for thirty 
years, and I wish to sell you such seeds as I would 
like to grow myself. 
Sincerely yours, 
PEDER BACK. 

SEEDS—BUY EARLY 
