





NEW HELP for your 
battle with the BUGS 
| Ever-since the first garden was planted, 
the fight between gardeners and insects 
has gone merrily along. 
}But nowadays that fight is growing 
easier, year by year. Just reasonably 
| good strategy is all the gardener needs 
| to win. 
] A New Weapon 
To make the job even easier, we present 
here a highly valuable new anti-bug 
“weapon. This is our series of natural 
color portraits of the common garden 
| enemies (at the right). 

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| For the first time in any seed catalog, 
| these pesis are fully pictured in their 
| exact coloring, so that you can recog- 
| nize them at a glance. 
To Beat Them, KNOW THEM! 
‘These unique pictures have just one 
| purpose—to help you identify the pests 
‘in your own garden. 






| 
|} a proper inseciicide for every one of 
| them. i 
| That's where our new color pictures are 
so extremely useful. When you have 
these life-like portraits before you, iden- 
| tification is easier and more certain 
Ask Us for the Remedy! 
| To link up each bug with the insecticide 
| that will handle him, JUST ASK US. 
_We know, from long experience, which 
| formula is best for each situation—and 
we have it on hand, ready for you. 
| So—with this new weapon at hand, let's 
work together. You identify ‘em! We'll 
| prescribe for ‘em! And from then on, 
| Mr. Bug will have a pretty bad time of it. 


For insecticides 
SEE THE SEEDSMAN! 
You can buy 
types of stores. 




insecticides in many 



But there’s only one type of store 
where the necessary KNOW-HOW 
goes along with the merchandise. 


A good seedsman isn’t only a mer- 


chant. He’s a garden doctor, always 


on the job to help you make your 


home more beautiful, more fruitful. 
He KNOWS! 
Therefore, plain common sense says, 
“FOR INSECTICIDES 
SEE THE SEEDSMAN!” 


Way we tatroduce...YOUR ENEMIES! 
We are proud to present —for the first time in any seed catalog —a series of true 
natural color portraits of common garden insects. USE THESE PICTURES to identify pests 
in your garden. Report them to us by name. We'll prescribe the right insecticides! 



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Cutworm— 1-3/4” 
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Tomato Hornworm— 3” to 4” 





Cabbage Worm— 1” 
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Giant Slug— 4” or more 

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' Japanese Beetle— 1/2” Mexican Bean Beetle — 5/16” 

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Asparagus Beetle —7/32” Potato Flea Beetle—1/16" 
Potato Beetle — 3/8” 

Rose 
Chafer— 3/8” 
Tarnished Plant 
Bug—1/4” 
Red Spider 
Mite—1/60" Beet Leafhopper—1/8” 



Mealy Bug— 3/16" Gladiolus Thrip— 1/16" 

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