HARRIS SEEDS 
1945 Price List for Market Gardeners and Florists 

Some of our farm crew harvesting a fine crop of Harris’ Special Detroit beet seed here on 
Moreton Farm last summer. Cutting beet seed by hand is a slow job but gives us the best seed 
and the highest germination. For this and other fine strains of beet, see page 5. 
MARKET growers deserve great credit for the wonderful job they have done in producing food 
during the war, despite adverse weather and severe shortages of help and materials. Food will 
still be needed in great quantities in 1945 and we believe markets will continue to be good. Growers 
should find it profitable to produce all they possibly can next year. 
There will be a big drop in the number of Victory Gardeners in 1945 and these people will be 
buying a lot more vegetables. They have learned to appreciate quality also, and growers should 
get extra prices for fancy produce. The best crops can be grown only by planting the finest seed 
and the choicest varieties. 
Harris special strains, grown and developed on our farms here in the North, are perfectly 
adapted to meet these modern markets. We supply not only the finest of the standard varieties 
but offer many improved new kinds, such as New Long Tendergreen Beans, Fordhook U. S. 
242 Lima Beans, North Star and Carmelcross corn, Marketer cucumber, Iroquois melon and 
many others. All through the war we have kept up our very high standards, maintaining our 
breeding work and our extensive trial grounds, and we will sell only the very best seed obtainable. 
To meet the constantly increasing demand for Harris Seeds we have increased our capacity 
and have made many improvements in our methods of handling and filling orders. We are now 
ready to offer prompt efficient service to our market gardener and florist customers. 
Vegetable seeds are in better supply this year, but really good stocks of many kinds are still 
scarce. In spite of our greatly expanded production we will undoubtedly be sold out of many of 
our special lines before planting time. We urge our customers to place their orders just as early 
as possible. 
ALLOW PLENTY OF TIME FOR YOUR ORDER TO REACH YOU 
The railroads are doing a magnificent job of moving war material, but they are severely over 
crowded and nearly all shipments are handled much more slowly than before. This applies not 
only to freight, which is frequently delayed, but even to mail and express. 
Therefore we urge our customers to order their seeds well ahead of the time they wish to plant, 
and to be patient if they are not received as quickly as in the past. 

PLEASE NOTE: All prices here quoted are subject to change without notice and to our stocks being 
unsold. For prices of seed in quantities less than listed here, please refer to our general catalog. 
CEILING PRICES— All prices listed in this catalog conform to the ceilings established in MPR 
496 and other regulations, and in most cases our prices are considerably below the ceiling prices. 
