
WHEN TO ORDER 
Order early. We fill orders in the rotation 
in which they arrive and promptly. Early 
orders always find a complete stock. 
Early orders help us spread out the spring 
tush, too. We do a better job, you get 
every item you order. 
HOW TO ORDER 
Please use the order-blank. It is easy for 
you to use and it helps us to do everything 
exactly right when we fill the order. Five 
easy steps: 
1: Romars order-blank from the cata- 
og. 
2, Fill in your complete name and 
address. 
3. List the seeds and other items you 
need. Left-hand column is for 
quantity you order; next column 
for variety number; next space for 
name of what you order; last 
column for price, and when order 
is completed, space at the bottom 
or on the back for you to total the 
figures. 
4. Enclose your order and pay for it 
in the return envelope you re- 
ceived with the catalog. 
5. The 25c rebate coupon is for use 
on the seed part of your order 
only. It does not apply on pur- 
chases of other garden supplies, 
which prices are net. 
WHEN DO WE DELIVER? 
All orders will be delivered promptly. If 
your order includes both ‘‘Postpaid”’ and 
“Not Postpaid” items, the Postpaid items 
may be shioped by mail and the ‘Not 
Postpaid" items separately, but- both 
promptly. 
POSTPAID PRICES 
Catalog prices include delivery on all 
seeds and many of the smaller garden 
supplies. 
HOW TO PAY 
Pay by Postal Note, Money Order or 
Check. In case you must pay by cash or 
stamps, be sure to register the envelope 
for safety. 
€.0.D. ORDERS 
The postal fee for collection on C. O. D. 
orders adds to the cost of your garden. 
We ask that you do not request us to 
ship C. O. D. It means standing in line 
at the Post Office for too long when we 
are so short of help. It is cheaper for 
you to send payment with your order. 
GARDEN SUPPLIES 
In our headquarters here in Cleveland, we 
operate one of the most complete retail 
seed stores in the United States. A wide 
range of fertilizers, insecticides and garden 
accessories are on display for those who 
come to our building to do their garden 
buying. 
If all of our many, many thousands of 
customers were located nearby, we could 
quote delivered prices on the heavy items 
like Fertilizers, Peat Moss and others. 
However, they are located in every one of 
the 48 states, and in a good many cases 
the transportation charges would be 
greater than the price of the merchandise. 
For this reason, we print a separate 
catalog listing garden supplies other than 
seed, mainly for the use of our nearby 
customers. However, if any customer, 
anywhere in the United States desires a 
copy, one will be sent free upon receipt of 
your request, with the knowledge that you 
have to pay freight or express charges on 
all items in that catalog, if you live more 
than 50 miles from Cleveland. 
THE TEMPLIN-BRADLEY Co. 
The World’s Best Seeds 
5700 Detroit Avenue 
CLEVELAND 2, OHIO 
To Our Customers— 
This is your copy of our 72nd Annual Flower, Vegetable and Lawn Seed Catalog. 
When the war ended, we had great hopes that by this time, family gardening would return 
to a full peace-time basis, but it has not done so. You an ive on one of the few spots on 
earth with sufficient prosperity to permit our people to feed, not only ourselves and our war 
enemies, but people of other nations who have suffered for lack of food. 
Now, we are confronted with a new task, proposed by the Secretary of Agriculture, of planting 
20,000,000 Home Vegetable Gardens in 1948, to grow fresh food for our own tables, so that 
commercial vegetable producers may concentrate on growing exportable agricultural products. 
The vegetables raised in that many gardens can amount to almost unbelievable quantities. 
Just to raise one tomato, one beet, one carrot, one radish, one onion and one bean in each of 
them would produce one billion, twenty million separate vegetables, so whether you think in 
terms of sound economy, charity to others, or just plain personal selfishness, it looks as though 
it is worth your while and mine to participate. 
Almost every person with whom we talk seems to think that we must help feed the rest of the 
world, whether we can afford it or not, or whether or not we ever get a bit of pay for it or credit 
for having done it among the people the food will help over the near-starvation period of 
getting on their own economic feet. 
So | have no hesitation about urging our good customers to plant one of these Home Food 
Gardens for Freedom in 1948. 
You have our best wishes for a suc- 
cessful garden, regardless of what you 
plant in it. | wish to personally thank 
you for orders for seeds that you have 
entrusted to us in the past. 
ae 
President. 

R. L. TEMPLIN 
Founder 
FLOYD BRADLEY 
President 
P. T. BRADLEY 
Vice President 
FB:B. 
P.S. The offer | am making on the next page following this one, is not for use in your own garden, 
but | wish you would take the time to read all that | have written there, so that if you, or any of 
your friends should wish to send seeds to relatives or friends in Europe, or to donate seeds 
through some charitable organization, you will know all the details. B. 
The Templin-Bradley Guarantee 
We guarantee the safe arrival of all seeds you order from us, that they will be as represented and in condition to 
grow satisfactorily if planted and cared for properly. 
Any item or items not found to be satisfactory will be replaced free of charge or we will refund the price you paid 
us for same if reported to us promptly. It is agreed that we shall in no case be liable for more than the actual 
price paid for items found to be unsatisfactory, if any. We do not guarantee garden accessories and manufactured 
articles. 
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