Seeds 
Mailed the year round, postpaid, with pamphlet detailing easy 
professional methods for quickly germinating the seed and bringing 
them in quantity to the full beauty of maturity. 
“If there is any living thing which might explain 
to us the mystery beyond this life, it should be 
seeds. We pour them curiously into the palm, dark 
as mystery, brown or gray as earth, bright some- 
times with the scarlet of those beads worked into 
Buddhist rosaries. We shake them there, gazing, 
but there is no answer to this knocking on the 
door .. . Sleeping beauties within the seed castles’ 
walls.” ... Donald Culross Peattie 
Seed is sown to best advantage from late fall through spring 
though many prefer sowing the freshly harvested seed in July and 
August. Seasonal instructions are included in the seeding pamphlet. 
Since writing the pamphlet, hardwood sawdust (from boadleafed 
trees, not conifers) has been used as a seeding medium with such 
remarkable results that nothing else is used at Barnhaven. The ease 
of preparation, cleanliness, unusually large root systems and many 
other valuable results from the use of sawdust may be of sufficient 
interest to you to read Prof. A. H. MacAndrews’ (Head of Forest 
Entomology, N. Y. State College of Forestry) article on the subject 
in American Primrose Society’s April, 1946 Quarterly (No. 4, Vol. 
3, 50c) 
We have but one grade of seed, the best that hand-pollinating our 
finest plants can produce. All seed is from the current year’s harvest, 
is picked when fully ripe, properly cured and stored at cool temper- 
atures. 
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