COMSTOCK, FERRE & COMPANY 
SEED GROWERS AND DEALERS 
FOR 128 YEARS — ESTABLISHED 1820 
With rising costs of everything you buy there is 
more need than ever to raise some part of your own 
food supply this year. Fresh vegetables all through 
the year, really garden fresh, canned or frozen to re- 
tain their luscious quality is an achievement of which 
you can be proud. If you have a plot of land that will 
grow a garden, plant it this year. 
The whole world needs more food. Whatever meat 
or wheat you can replace with vegetables will help 
feed those in need. Can or freeze liberal quantities. If 
you cannot produce enough for your needs fine qual- 
ity vegetables can be bought from market gardeners 
at the height of the season. In any case eat more vege- 
tables — it’s healthy, it’s economical and it helps 
others. 
And don't forget the flowers. Many beautiful kinds 
are easy to grow. Others will test your ability as a 
gardener and give you a thrill to succeed in growing 
them well. Why not grow one of the less familiar kinds 
unusually well this year? 
It is a real pleasure to use the new chemicals. They 
are less poisonous and very efficient, as insecticides, 
fungicides, weed killers and fertilizers: Use the new 
weed killers on your lawn and watch the dandelions, 
plantain and other weeds disappear as if by magic. 
Among the finer strains of vegetables we recom- 
mend the following: 
BEANS, FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA 242 The heaviest 
yielding bush lima. Produces a good crop under ad- 
_verse weather conditions. Pods are of good size and 
uniformly carry 3 to 4 thick beans of choice quality. 
Page 4. 
BEANS, LONGREEN This slender round podded 
green bean combines handsome appearance, good 
quality and abundant yield. Developed from the pop- 
ular Tendergreen it has all its good qualities and 
produces pods an inch longer. Page 5. 
BEANS, SENSATION WAX No. 3 A new selection 
for home market garden. Pods are straight, 6 inches 
long, round and a beautiful deep golden yellow. 
Seeds are white with a small brown eye. Page 5. 
CORN, WASHINGTON Another new product of the 
Conn. Agricultural Experiment Station. Closely fol- 
lowing Spancross the ears are the largest of any 
extra early hybrid. Earlier and larger than Marcross. 
Page 12. 
CORN, WILSON The latest and largest eared yellow 
hybrid. A good quality corn for late use. Stalks are 
tall and strong and make good fodder. Page 12. 
CORN, GOLDEN MIDGET An exceptional quality 
com for even the smallest gardens. The ears are 
small, 8 rowed, and bear tender kernels of fine sweet 
flavor. In season it produces with the very earliest 
varieties while the stalks do not exceed 34 feet in 
height. Page 13. 
- WETHERSFIELD, CONN. 
CUCUMBER, MARKETER Splendid new prolific va- 
riety of most uniform dark green color. Fruits are 
slender and medium size measuring 8 by 2% inches, 
a desirable size for market and table use. Page 14. 
MUSKMELON, IROQUOIS This new and _ prolific 
strain of the Bender type is resistant to fusarium wilt. 
Fruits are large, round to oval in shape, heavily 
ribbed and coarsely netted. Flesh is very thick, deep 
orange in color and rates high for flavor and sweet- 
ness. Page 17. © 
PEAS, FREEZONIAN New early variety of outstand- 
ing value for freezing and garden use. Vines are tall 
and strong and produce an abundant yield of good 
sized pods tightly packed with rich green peas of fine 
flavor. Page 20. 
RADISH, CAVALIER Similar in shape to Early Scar- 
let Globe, but with brighter and more intense color. 
This strain is of perfect globe shape and wonderfully 
uniform in size and maturity. When fully grown it 
remains edible for several days before becoming 
pithy. Page 22. 
SQUASH, BUTTERNUT Universally popular for its 
convenient size, dry sweet flesh and fine flavor. A 
heavy cropping squash that excels in quality and 
usefulness. Page 24. 
FERTILIZER V H P F_ A new soluble complete fertil- 
izer and plant stimulant. Its use when transplanting 
prevents wilting, causes rapid recovery and stimu- 
lates quick growth. As a fertilizer it supplies not only 
the major plant foods, but all the rare minerals and 
hormones needed for plant growth, thus correcting 
soil deficiencies to a greater extent than other fertil- 
izers. Page 45. 
FUNGICIDE, SPERGON An outstanding and easily 
applied non-poisonous seed disinfectant. Beans, Peas, 
Corn and many other seeds dusted before planting 
show a marked increase in germination and healthier 
growth. Available in dry form for dusting in a wettable 
form for soil disinfection and spraying. Can be com- 
bined with most other chemicals, such as DDT. 
Page 46. 
INSECTICIDE, SYNDEET An improved form of DDT 
of 30% concentration. Requires only a very weak so- 
lution to control aphids, mites and thrips, plus all in- 
sects controlled by other forms of DDT. Especially 
effective in killing and repelling Japanese Beetle. It 
does not stain foliage or flowers and is easy to apply, 
retaining its strength until washed off by rain. Page 46. 
MICA-GRO Popular new medium for seed starting. 
Clean, light in texture and weight, sterilized and 
treated with nutrients, vitamines and root forming 
hormones necessary to rapid germination. It holds 
water like a sponge so that it requires less frequent 
watering and yet does not dry out readily. “Damping 
off” is reduced to a minimum. Seedlings grown in 
Mica-Gro have strong fibrous root growth making 
transplanting easy and safe without checking growth. 
Many seeds of difficult germination in other mediums 
grow readily in Mica-Gro. Page 45. 
