
Our 79 years’ Experience 
Bears Fruit 
In Your Garden 
UPPOSE we could look back eighty years into. the gardens of our ancestors. Would we find 
the long round stringless beans of today—the luscious Golden Cross Bantam Corn—the crisp 
Iceberg lettuce—or those spicy sweet First-on-the-Market muskmelons ? 
Few of us appreciate the years of painstaking work behind the development of the better 
vegetables and flowers. The history of each of these will show years of tedious work by some man 
devoted to the cause of better seeds. And this fact makes our 79 years’ experience in the seed 
business of great value to you. 
Nearly eighty years ago, Major R. L. Ragland, the founder of this business grew his first 
crop of seed. From this small beginning and to the fourth generation of seed breeders, our busi- 
ness has been handed down from father to son and with it invaluable knowledge of seed breed- 
ing. During these long years, we have built contacts with growers and farmers all over the 
world. We have found from experience where each crop produces its best seeds. We have studied 
and tested many varieties and built our stock from the best. 
Truly our years of experience bears fruit in your garden, on your farm, and in your tobacco 
field. This fact should show you the value of buying your seeds from a house with such a long 
background. Only in Slate’s Seeds can you obtain this value. 
SEA oe oe <C@UlLeANY ING 
SOUTH BOSTON - VIRGINIA 
January 1, 1945 


