
Harris Seeds tor (46 


Specializing in 
vigorous Northern 
grown strains of 
vegetables and 
flowers. 
D> DI SUE KE ES 



1946 is the year to plan a garden you will really enjoy. 
During the war years, you have undoubtedly discovered 
the thrill we all get out of growing fine things. You have 
learned a lot of new skills—put them to use raising the 
vegetables your family likes best. Fresh from your garden, 
they taste so much better and they are better for you. 
Plant more flowers—you will be surprised how easy it is 
to grow an abundance of large-flowering, free-blooming 
annuals and perennials in the garden and around the home. 
Try out some of the new vegetables such as Honey 
Cream watermelons (from seeds or plants), Cornell No. 6 
celery, Slobolt lettuce; and in flowers, Victory Giant 
Asters, Colossal Snapdragons and our northern grown 
Petunias. Raise some of your own plants in the new im- 
proved Fertile Pots and try beating your neighbors with 
earlier and better crops started under Hotkaps or Hotents. 
For an unusual treat in the summer and fall, set out some 
Gem Everbearing strawberry plants. 
Many things make gardening easier now—good quality 
hand sprayers and dusters are back, and lawn and garden 
sprinklers are available. The powerful new DDT will be a 
real help in controlling many bugs. This spring we 
have available the new hormone weed killer that will 
actually kill weeds in your lawn without hurting the grass, 
besides killing poison ivy, bindweed, etc. Be sure to try 
the new 2, 4-D Weed Killer. 
To have an enjoyable, satisfying garden, you must 
start with the best materials. It is the inherent nature of 
the seeds you plant that produces really splendid results. 
We know this is true for every year we plant hundreds of 
trials to compare the seeds we sell with the best available 
elsewhere. These tests invariably show up the superiority 
of carefully grown and well bred stocks, such as we offer 
in this catalog. Here on our farms in the North, we raise 
our special strains, famous for their extra earliness, 
vitality and higher eating quality. We know the impor- 
tance of these things to our customers and that is why 
during the war we have never let up in our trial ground 
work or in the careful selection and breeding work that 
has made these strains outstanding. 
If you want to grow fine vegetables and flowers, order 
Harris seeds and plants. We are ready to give your orders 
prompt, courteous and efficient attention, and you can be 
sure the seeds you get are the finest obtainable anywhere. 

VEGETABLE GARDEN COLLECTIONS 
at much reduced prices 
These collections are made up of our most popular varieties and the seeds are the very best we have. They are sold at reduced prices because 
they can be put up ahead of time, all ready to mail. For this reason we cannot make any changes in the collections to your order. 
However in the event that we should sell out any variety offered, we reserve the right to supply an equally good variety of the same type in 
its place. 
Vegetable Collection No. 1—For a Small Garden—Value $1.85—$1.00 Postpaid 
This popular collection will plant a garden about 25 x 40 feet, or its equivalent. It is composed of one regular packet each of the following 
vegetable seeds: (No changes can be made.) 
Beet, Detroit Dark Red 
Beans, New Long Tendergreen 
Sweet Corn, Golden Cross Bantam 
Cucumber, Harris’ Perfection 
Radish, Early Scarlet Globe 
Summer Squash, Early Yellow Prolific 
Spinach, Special Summer Savoy 
Beans, Pencil Pod Black Wax 
Carrot, Nantes 
Sweet Corn, North Star 
Vegetable Collection No. 2—For a Larger Garden—Value $3.45—$2.50 Postpaid 
This collection will plant a garden about 40 x 60 feet or 2400 square feet and should grow sufficient quantity of fresh vegetables for the average 
size family. It includes the following seeds: (No changes can be made.) 
1 ib. each of: 
Beans, New Long Tendergreen 
Beans, Pencil Pod Black Wax 
Peas, Thomas Laxton 
Peas, Lincoln 
1 Oz. of: 
Spinach, Special Summer Savoy 
1 Pkt. each of: 
Beet, Detroit Dark Red 
Lettuce, Imperial 44 
Lettuce, Black Seeded Simpson 
Onion, Sweet Spanish 
Swiss Chard, Fordhook Giant 
Turnip, Purple Top White Globe 
Onion, Sweet Spanish 
Parsley, Paramount 
Parsnip, Harris’ Model 
Radish, Early Scarlet Globe 
Radish, Icicle 
Summer Squash, Early Yellow Prolific 
Swiss Chard, Fordhook Giant 
Turnip, Purple Top White Globe 
Beet, Long Season 
Cabbage, Golden Acre 
Carrot, Nantes 
Carrot, Tendersweet 
Sweet Corn, North Star 
Sweet Corn, Golden Cross Bantam 
Cucumber, Harris’ Perfection 
Lettuce, Imperial 44 
Lettuce, Black Seeded Simpson 
