BROCCOLI, Italian 
Green Sprouting 
PEPPER, Pimento 
(S HOW TO GROW BETTER VEGETABLES 
For the world’s greatest bargain, grow your own vegeta- 
bles. You get dollars for pennies, with a lot of healthy 
fun thrown in free when you grow your own vegetables. 
Where else can you get so much for so little? 
And besides, no vegetables you buy at the store ever 
taste so good—or are so good for you, because vegeta- 
bles begin to undergo a change, almost as soon as they 
are picked, Inevitable natural processes quickly alter their 
flavor, texture and vitamin content, That's why there’s no 
substitute for garden-fresh vegetables. 
FIRST, PLAN IT ON PAPER 
The best way to start your garden is to plan it on paper 
first. This way you can get the best food with the least 
amount of time. Start with a rough sketch. Try all of your 
ideas in combination on this rough sketch. When you 
have what you want, convert your rough sketch into a 
final plan, drawn to scale. A scale of one-quarter of an 
inch representing one foot works very well, because by 
using one sixteenth of an inch as three inches, almost 
any standard spacing of the rows can be shown in exact 
scale. 
KEY POINTS 
Divide your garden into three sections if possible. 
Root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruit vegetables. 
By swiiching these three crops every year you avoid 
many soil-borne diseases and insects and you get better 
use of your fertilizer. This isn’t absolutely necessary, but 
it is one of these details that a smart gardener watches. 
On level ground you can run rows either east and west 
or north and south. If east-and-west layout is used, be 
sure to plant taller vegetables to the north. On sloping 
ground, the rows must run across the slope, not up and 
down. Otherwise all of your plant food will go down 
the hill when it rains. 
Plan to use your garden full time. To do this, you'll need 
catch crops, intercrops (companion crops) and succession 
crops. Catch crops are early vegetables like spinach, that 
you grow very early before a crop like late cabbage is 
set out. Intercrops are planted between the rows of 
larger vegetables, like head lettuce between rows of 
Broccoli. Succession crops follow early crops. For instance, 
Chinese cabbage will mature fine heads if planted after 
a crop of peas has been taken off. 
THE BEST SEED IS YOURS IN OUR STORE 
Every item of garden seed in this book is good seed—the 
very finest quality to be had anywhere, at any price. 
You may be able to buy your garden seed cheaper, but 
you simply can’t buy better seed than we offer here. 
Every lot is carefully selected from the best offerings of 
the best growers. 
Another good thing about our seed is its fitness for this 
area. We know local soils and local weather conditions— 
and we select our seeds to meet these particular condi- 
tions. There are plenty of gardening risks you can't avoid, 
so why take unnecessary risks? The seed business is a 
highly technical specialty. It demands years of experi- 
ence — endless vigilance — constant contact with many 
markets. That's why only seed specialists can serve you 
safely. 
We are seed specialists of long experience. Our business 
life depends upon the quality and honesty of the seed 
we sell you! Your garden future is safe in our hands. 
Drop in. Talk it over with us. Our knowledge and experi- 
ence are yours for the asking. 
GEO. T. BROWNING CO. 
613 Monroe St. 
TOLEDO 4, OHIO 
