What Asgrow) WEAMS 
lo the market grower 
In brief, it means an opportunity to raise vegetables of 
higher quality, often combined with heavier yield and 
greater resistance to disease, through the use of seeds 
which have been developed to that end. 
Here’s the story behind these seeds: In 1927, three of 
the oldest seed growing firms in this country joined 
forces under the title of ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, INC. 
Their principal business has been for nearly a century 
the breeding and growing of dependable strains of vege- 
table seeds. Although this business started, and now 
has its headquarters, in the East, most ASGROW SEED 
is grown in the West under conditions most favorable 
for the avoidance of plant diseases and the production 
of clean, high germinating seeds. At the present time, 
in addition to the many thousands of acres planted in 
our seed production, we have more than 1,000 acres 
devoted exclusively to breeding work. 
Asgrow breeding stations are operated in eight different 
sections of the country, because work on the different 
vegetables should be done in sections where those vege- 
tables can be most advantageously grown. Similarly, 
much of our work in developing strains that will be 
resistant to disease is carried on in those sections where 
disease is causing more trouble. 
Our staff engaged in this work is composed of plant 
breeders and seedsmen thoroughly trained in the seed 
business, and this staff is directed and supervised by 
men of scientific and technical skill. Their first duty is 
the maintenance of Asgrow stocks of accepted varieties 
true to type and free from reversion to the more rugged 
forms of wild nature. Extended programs of breeding 
and hybridization are also continually in progress 
toward the introduction of desirable characteristics and 
the development of improved new varieties. Very many 
of those listed in the following pages are of ASGROW 
origin. 
Every season, while our crops are growing, our experi- 
enced field men keep constant watch over the purity of 
the stocks and supervise the roguing, cultivation and 
harvesting of the crops, in order to be sure that the 
care taken in developing the parent stocks may show to 
full advantage in the seed crops. 
In the fall the crops are brought into our thirty-odd 
warehouses and fitting plants. These are located in the 
principal producing sections of the country—mostly in 
the West. Here the crops are milled and fitted for ship- 
ment, and samples are sent to our seed laboratories to 
be tested for vitality and purity. 
This comprehensive program of scientific breeding and 
careful production is what warrants the confidence of 
the grower and justifies the slogan 
Asgrow Seeds are bred ~ not just grown 
Associated Seed Growers, Inc. 
Main Office: New Haven 2, Connecticut 
Breeding stations 
Bradenton, Florida 
San Antonio, Texas 
Twin Falls, Idaho 
Franklin, Indiana 
Milpitas, California 
Orange, Connecticut 
Growing stations and warehouses 
Ashton, Idaho Mt. Vernon, Washington 
Carson City, Michigan Nampa, Idaho 
Elgin, Oregon Omaha, Nebraska 
Fairfield, Washington Powell, Wyoming 
Filer, Idaho Rexburg, Idaho 
Rigby, Idaho 
Rupert, Idaho 
St. Anthony, Idaho 
San Antonio, Texas 
Genesee, Idaho 
Gonzales, California 
Greeley, Colorado 
Hamilton, Montana 
Kalispell, Montana Salinas, California 
Milford, Connecticut Sheboygan, Wisconsin 
Brooks and Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 
Sales branches and distributing warehouses 
Atlanta 2, Georgia Memphis 2, Tennessee 
Cambridge, New York Milford, Connecticut 
El Centro, California Oxnard, California 
Exmore, Virginia Oakland 4, California 
Indianapolis 25, Indiana Salinas, California 
Packet Seed Division 
Rice Diviston, Cambridge, N.Y. 
Downey, Calif. Indianapolis 
Distributors for Texas and New Mexico 
AsGrow TExas Co., San Antonio 11, Texas 
Crystal City Robstown Weslaco 
International Division 
AsGRow ExPporT CORPORATION 
Milford, Connecticut 
We warrant that the seeds, bulbs and plants we sell, are at the time of delivery, as described on the container 
within recognized tolerances; but we limit our liability on this warranty to the amount of the purchase price 
of such seeds, bulbs and plants. We give no other or further warranty express or implied. 
ASSOCIATED SEED GROWERS, INC. 
Eleven extensively grown varieties are featured on the front cover of this catalog. Their popularity may be taken 
as an indication of quality and value. See if you can identify them before you turn to inside back cover. 
