Vegetable-Flower Seeds, Bulhs, Insecticide Supplies 
Catalog 1948 
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help to us in filling your order correctly and speedily, 
if you will use the Order Sheet sent you with the cata- 
log. Please Keep a Copy of Your Order. 
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sent safely by P. O. Order, Bank Draft, Express Money 
Order, or Check. 
NO C.O.D. SHIPMENTS. Absolutely no plants 
or perishable goods will be sent C.O.D. We advise 
against C.O.D. orders because of delays and excessively 
high collection charges. Send remittance with your 
order. If overpaid, we will refund the difference. 
POSTAGE for parcel post shipment. The prices in 
this catalog except on flower seeds are not prepaid. In- 
clude sufhicient to cover postage with cash orders. Large 
packages or shipments of considerable weight travel 
more cheaply by express. 
Wi Prices in This Catalog Are Subject to Change Without Notice 
Routing. Please give explicit shipping directions with 
each order, giving name of freight, express and post 
office stations. If no directions are given, we will use our 
best judgment, but all goods travel at purchaser's risk. 
All goods are offered subject to crop failures, short- 
ages or other causes beyond our control and to being 
unsold on receipt of order. 
IMPOSSIBLE TO GUARANTEE CROPS 
Warranty. Although we try our best to please we 
cannot warrant in any way, expressed or implied, the 
contents or description, purity, productiveness or any 
matter of any seeds, bulbs or plants and we will not 
in any way be responsible for the crop. If the pur- 
chaser does not accept these goods on the above terms 
no sale is made thereof and goods must be returned at 
once. Again we say for the business you have sent us 
we are grateful and trust we may continue to serve you 
carefully and promptly. 
A. H. HUMMERT. 
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LAWN GRASS SEED 
The best time to start your lawn or to rebuild it, is during the cool weather early in spring or in fall. The 
weather at this time is favorable for the development of a good turf. 
All our Lawn Grasses are recleaned and tested for highest quality, purity and germination. 
One pound of Lawn Seed will sow 10x30 feet; 75 to 100 pounds to the acre. 

OUR FINEST LAWN MIXTURE 
VELVET LAWN SEED 
The fin-st balanced mixture of the best Kentucky Blue Grass, 
Fancy Recleaned Red Top, small percentage of Rye Grass 
and White Clover. The best lawn mixture for this climate. 
3 Ibs., $1.35; 5 lbs., $2.25; 10 lbs., $4.50; 25 lbs., $10%75; 
112-lb. baz, 38¢ per pound, 

BENT, COLONIAL or ASTORIA (Agrostis tenuis) 
An excellent all-around Bent for lawns, greens, parks and play- 
ing fields; grows on wide range of soils; spreads mainly by under- 
ground root stalks or rhizomes, making a deep reinforced sod. 
It seldom produces many stolons or surface runners, thus lessen- 
ing the amount of top dressing and watering. Sow about 3 lbs. 
to 1000 square feet. 1% lb., 75c; 1 lb., $1.40; 5 lbs., $6.00. 
BENT, SEASIDE 
This is the variety which was first identified in Oregon. It is 
a hardy creeping variety forming a close, matlike sward. % lb., 
75c; 1 lb., $1.40; 5 Ibs., $6.00. 
BERMUDA 
It is of dwarf habit with long creeping stems, rooting at the 
joint and covering the ground with a matting of fine turf. 1 lIb., 
65c; 5 lbs., $3.00. 
BLUE GRASS, KENTUCKY (Poa pratensis) 
Fancy extra recleaned. Kentucky Blue Grass is largely used for 
lawns and when once established, lasts indefinitely. An excellent 
pasture grass. Deep rooting and has an attractive color. For 
lawns, sow 5 lhs., per 1000 sq. ft. 5 lbs., $2.50; 10 lbs., $5.00; 
25 lbs., $11.50; 112-lb. bag, 40c per Ib. 
BLUE GRASS, KENTUCKY SUPREME BRAND 
98 per cent pure. This seed is recleaned to the highest purity 
obtainable 5 Ibs., $3.00; 10 lbs., $6.00; 25 lbs., $13.50; 112- 
Ib. bag, 50c per Ib. 
BLUE GRASS, CANADIAN (Poa compressa) 
A very hardy perennial grass with ceeping rootstocks, 5 Ibs., 
$3.00; 10 lbs., $6.00; 25 Ibs., $13.50; 112-lb. bag, 50c per Ib. 
CREEPING RED RESCUE. 
A variety of Fescue; superior to Chewings. This fine-leaved grass 
produces a bright green turf, especially well adapted for tree 
shade, on account of its drought resistance. Sow 5 lbs., per 1000 
sq. ft. 1 Ib., 70c; 3 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $3.00; 10 lbs., $6.00; 
25 |bs., $13.50. 
RED TOP, FANCY 
Red Top is a remarkable grass accommodating itself to a variety 
of soils and conditions. It is strongly drought-resistant. 3 lbs., 
$1.15; 10 lbs., $3.50; 100 lbs., $24.00. 

RYE GRASS 
Succeeds well on almost any soil, but is particularly adapted to 
lbs., 
moderately moist lands. 3 
6G. 
$2.00; 100 lbs., $12.00. 
Ibs., $1.00; 10 
lbs., 
RYE GRASS, PERENNIAL 
A hardy grass of quick growth, suitable for lawns and meadows. 
3 Ibs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $1.60; 10 lbs., $3.00; 100 lbs., $23.00. 
WHITE or DUTCH CLOVER FOR LAWNS 
A low growing Clover. Very desirable for beautifying the lawn. 
1 pound covers 600 square feet. Y% lb., 50c; 1 Ib., 90c; 5 Ibs., 
$4.25. 
