1949 
Americans as a people are interested in good living. One of the 
important parts of good living is good eating. Our job on the American 
business team is to provide you with vegetable seeds which will be 
progressively better. They will provide better eating at the table, will 
be easier to grow and more certain to make a crop with each succeeding 
year. This results in a lower net cost to you along with improved food 
quality. But to profit fully from these annual improvements, you should 
keep posted on what they are and how to use them. 
This reference book is published for our dealers and customers to 
give them accurate information of varieties of vegetables and their culti- 
vation. 
Since the printing of our last Seed Manual a great number of new 
and important varieties of vegetables have come into general use. Seed 
breeders have been working on many kinds of vegetables, and many new 
and better varieties have been developed. In recent years there has been 
a greater advance in the development of Sweet Corn than any other kind 
of vegetable, and we are proud of our share in this accomplishment as 
we have taken a leading part in the development of new and better 
hybrids, having a complete range of maturities of outstanding varieties 
for Canner, Freezer, Market and Home Gardener. We sincerely believe 
you will do better with our Sweet Corns than with any other brand and 
have a definite program to make this continue to be so. 
We hope you will find the information helpful in selling more vege- 
table seed, and we want you to feel that our research department, sales 
personnel and the whole backlog of experience of more than sixty years 
in the seed business are at your service. 
Michael-Leonard Company 
General offices at Sioux City, Iowa, and Chicago, III., 
with branches in the following States: 
Idaho Oregon 
Illinois Washington 
Iowa Wyoming 
Montana 
