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SEE CATALOG COVER for COLOR 
ILLUSTRATION of THESE DELPHINIUMS 
It’s Over! 
Now What? 
E ARE enjoying the first Peace-time gardening year since Pearl 
Harbor. Looking back, we feel certain that the Victory Garden- 
ing activities of our people represented one of the really great Ameri- 
can efforts of the war. Food literally did Fight for Freedom, and had 
it not been for the astonishing production of our community and 
home gardens, a very serious food situation would have developed. 
In Industry reconversion represents a major problem. It is a 
problem that every gardener also faces, and if we may be privileged 
to guide the thinking of our customers in Peace as we did in War, 
then we urge you to think along the lines of continuing your Victory 
Gardening. The need for a conservative home production of vege- 
tables still exists; the returns from such production merit your most 
careful thought, for you have learned that your garden produces 
something that money cannot buy in the markets—health, happi- 
ness, and a justifiable and honest pride that comes from worthwhile 
accomplishment. 
Breck’s urges a three point plan for 1946 gardening: 
(1). A continuance of vegetable growing on a genuinely selective 
basis. 
(2). Reconversion of the garden plot, yard beds, or other cult’ 7ated 
areas, so that the joys of outdoor living among the flowers can 
be greater and ever more colorful. 
(3). A return to ornamental gardening which involves the improve- 
ment of long neglected lawns, flower beds, shrubbery-borders 
and hedges. 
In this catalog, the pages are filled with a multitude of things 
that will make your home life richer and hippier. One does not 
have to travel to see the beautiful flowers of the world. These you 
can have in your own garden; you can grow them yourself. Arouse 
in your family circle a pride in your garden, an interest in working 
there, and a joy in playing in it. Carry this garden message out to 
your neighbors; enter into friendly competition with them in the 
growing of fruits, vegetables and flowers; create community spirit, 
and by so doing, help build America back to a peace-time way 
Of livanigi Shes A. and thinking. 
We Wisu You Every Success IN THE ComINGc YEAR 
JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 
Luruer A. BRECK::........ President and Treasurer 
Harowp S. Ross........ Vice-President Lutuer A. Breck, Jr......... Vice-President 
ee CLARENCE H. WELIS............2-/..0555- Secretary 
Sete’ Credit Dept. Ernest Bates. Hardware Dept. Gorpon P. Stewart... . Retail Sales Dept. 
Naiiine oe cas . Mail Service Dept. JAMES SHIEIS...... Seed Dept. Tuomas H. Westwoon. .Flower Seed Dept. 
x Leo P. McNaMaRA........++000e8 Warehouse Gen. Manager 
New England’s Oldest Seed Merchants—Established 1818 
Main Store AND GENERAL OFFICES. ......000 00 cece cree eens 
85 Franklin Street 
ISRANOH STORE suc c.0 sss wioie oer Caicle busier 
85 State Street, Boston 9, Mass. 
WAREHOUSES. secure ecicsculesie cisersicrsie's 15-24 Lewis Wharf 
Telephone: Lafayette 7420 
Copyright 1946 by Joseph Breck and Sons 
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QUICK INDEX 
Delivery, Terms, 
Etc. 
Page 2 

Early Season Gar- 
dening Supplies 
Page 5 
Seed Treating 
Materials and 
Horticultural 
Sundries 
Page 6 
Fertilizers 
Page 7 
Field Seeds 
Grasses, Grains 
Page 8 
Lawn Grass Seed 
Mixtures 
Page 9 
Vegetable 
Planting Chart 
Page 10 
Vegetable Seeds, 
Roots and Plants 
Pages 11 to 27 
Flower Seeds 
Pages 23 to 53 
Roses 
Pages 54 to 58 
Trees, Shrubs and 
Vines 
Pages 59 to 61 
Fruits 
Pages 62 and 63 
Miscellaneous 
Summer Bulbs 
Pages 64 and 65 
Gladiolus 
Pages 66 and 67 
Dahlias 
Pages 68 and 69 
Bird Feeders and 
Foods 
Page 70 
Tools and Gadgets 
Pages 70 to 73 
Insecticides, 
Fungicides, Etc. 
Pages 74 to 76 
Watering Devices 
and Accessories 
Page 79 
Complete Index 
Pages 79 and 80 
