COMSTOCK, FERRE & COMPANY 
SEED GROWERS AND DEALERS 
FOR 129 YEARS — ESTABLISHED 1820 
Maintaining and improving the quality of seed has 
been our goal for many years. Our long experience 
is at your service in supplying varieties and strains 
suited to your needs. Careful germination tests and 
field tests are carried on to make sure that the seed 
we sell will, under normal conditions, not only grow 
well but produce better than ordinary crops. The use 
of less than the best seed may make the difference 
between success and failure or profit and loss. 
The world’s food supply is a little less critical, but 
there are great needs unfilled and little prospect that 
there will be any immediate decline in prices for 
food. Aside from the finer quality vegetables fresh 
from the garden, it is healthy, economical and thrifty 
to have your own amply supply and to eat more 
delicious fresh vegetables. 
Flower gardening is increasing with room for still 
greater increase. We are continually adding new 
and superior strains to our unusually complete list 
of flower seeds. There is real satisfaction in grow- 
ing flowers. Anyone can acquire the “know how” 
with little experience. 
No home is at its best without a well kept lawn. 
If you have problems of maintainance we can advise 
methods and materials to remedy most difficulties. 
A really fine lawn is more easily cared for than a 
poor or weedy one. 
The following are some of the most outstanding 
newer vegetables and garden necessities: 
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. 
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BEANS, CHEROKEE WAX A new black seeded wax 
variety combining quality with a most attractive ap- 
pearance. Vines are vigorous and produce an abund- 
ant crop of straight nearly round pods. Page 5. 
CORN, GOLDEN MIDGET HYBRID A new hybrid of 
Golden Midget with larger ears and small 5 ft. stalks. 
Although one of the very first varieties to mature, its 
quality is equal to the best of the later kinds. Page 12. 
CUCUMBER, HIGHMOOR Outstanding for perfect 
cylindrical form, high yield and quality. The 8 to 9 
inch fruits are uniformly dark green, smooth and thick 
meated. Page 14. 
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. 
WETHERSFIELD, CONN. 
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. 
RADISH, CHERRY BELLE Refined new selection with 
very short leaves and small bright scarlet roots, uni- 
formly round like bright red cherries. 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. 
SQUASH, CASERTA Distinct new strain of Cocozelle 
type produced by Dr. Curtis of the University of Con- 
necticut. Matures two weeks earlier and produces an 
extraordinary crop of slender deep green fruit of 
superior quality. Page 24. 
TOMATO, LONG RED New round scarlet variety that 
ripens evenly to the stem without cracking. A heavy 
yielder over a long season with medium sized fruit 
that are easy to pick. Page 25. 
FERTILIZER VHP F A new soluble complete fertil- 
jzer 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, 
Com 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. 
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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 (also known as Vermiculite). For seed and 
cutting beds, this remarkable material gives sensa- 
tional results in overcoming damping-off, and in- 
creases stand of healthy seedlings. It is clean and 
free from all fungi, bacteria and insect life. It absorbs 
and holds water like a sponge giving it up slowly 
so that frequent watering is not necessary and even 
the smallest seed sown on its surface has moisture 
to germinate without the drying out or hardening of 
the surface encountered with soil. It can also be used 
to improve its texture for delicate seedlings. Page 45. 
