SPRINGFIELD SEED COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 3 
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* VEGETABLE SEED Se 
MAKE YOUR GARDEN WORK THE YEAR AROUND 
For Best Results Plant STAR BRAND SEED 
The wide-awake gardener plans to use his garden full time by sowing seeds as early in 
the spring as possible and following with succession crops throughout the summer. 
the varieties of vegetables that your family will eat and be sure to include enough to can, 
store and freeze to last all through the year. 
WHEN TO PLANT 
Because of year to year weather variations it is difficult to list specific dates at which 
various crops should be planted. Therefore may we suggest nature’s own signs. 
THE VERY EARLY VARIETIES: Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, 
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cauliflower, kale, kohlrabi, 
lettuce, round seeded peas, radishes, rutabagas, spinach and turnips can be safely planted 
at the time the farmer seeds oats. 
THE EARLY VARIETIES: Beets, onion sets, wrinkled peas and Swiss Chard may be sown 
when the earliest tulips and daffodils are blooming. 
LATE SPRING CROPS: 
Bush beans, sweet corn, pumpkins and squash may be planted 
when the apple blossoms and lilacs are in full bloom. 
SUMMER CROPS: Lima beans, 
FOR HOME FREEZING 
we suggest the following vegetables 
ASPARAGUS—Mary Washington. 
BEANS (green)—Bountiful, Giant 
Stringless Greenpod, Kentucky 
Wonder, Tendergreen, Rival, Top- 
crop. 
BEANS (lima)—Fordhook, Bur- 
pees Bush, Henderson’s King of 
Garden. 
BEANS (wax)—Pencil Pod Wax. 
BEETS—Detroit Dark Red, Cros- 
by’s Egyptian. 
BROCCOLI—Green Sprouting. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS—Long Is- 
land Improved. 
CAULIFLOWER—Early Snowball. 
CORN (sweet)—Golden Bantam, 
Golden Cross Bantam, Stowell’s 
Evergreen, Stowell’s Evergreen 
Hybrid. 
EGGPLANT—Black Beauty. 
KOHLRABI—Early White Vienna. 
PEAS—Gradus, Thomas Laxton, 
Laxton’s Progress, Little Marvel, 
Telephone. 
RHUBARB—Ruby Red. 
SPINACH — Bloomsdale Long 
Standing, King of Denmark, 
Giant Nobel. 
SQUASH (winter)—Blue Hubbard, 
Golden Hubbard, Delicious. 
SWISS CHARD—Lucullus. 
TURNIP—Purple Top White Globe, 
Purple Top Strap Leaf. 
NUMBER OF DAYS 
TO MATURITY 
The number of days required by any 
particular variety to produce garden stuff 
ready for table use varies from year to 
year and depends upon growing and sea- 
sonal conditions. 
pole beans, 
planted and plants of eggplant, peppers and tomatoes set out when the apple blossom 
petals have fallen and the late tall iris are in full bloom. 
FALL CROPS: Turnips, bush beans, Chinese cabbage, mustard, radishes, lettuce and spin- 
ach may be sown in late July or early August to replace the early crops. 
In our description of 
most varieties we are giving the average 
number of days from seed to edible stage. 
Time given for broccoli, cabbage, cauli- 
cucumbers, muskmelons and okra may be 
SATISFACTORY 
SEED SERVICE 
VEGETABLE PLANTS and ROOTS 
We have the best equipped Greenhouses and Trial Gardens in the Southwest for growing 
plants: 55,000 square feet of glass. 
In their proper seasons we shall have large quantities of all kinds of vegetable plants of 
our Own growth. Give us ample time to select, pack and ship your order. By doing so you 
will secure better plants. Should we be sold out of the variety of plants ordered, we will 
send a nearly similar kind instead. They will be carefully packed and will carry long dis- 
tances. Plants by mail at purchaser’s risk. No charge for packing, etc. Special prices to 
growers and canners. 
TRANSPLANTED PLANTS WILL BE SENT UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED 
ON YOUR ORDER 
Ready 
Doz. 100 1000 About 
CABBAGHE—Frost Proof, Transplanted, home grown............$0.20 $1.50 Sine Hebare 
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Peppers, Transplanted ......... 25 2:00 meee AST 18 
Cauliflower, Transplanted . 25 2 (00 ae eee pr 
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Prices quoted above on plants are at our store only. By parcel post add 23c 
for first dozen, 5c for each additional dozen, for postage and packing. 
SPHAGNUM MOSS—For packing vegetable plants. $4.50 per bale, f. o. b. our 
store. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
2 years old. We can furnish Washington roots at 
25 Roots, $1.50; 100 Roots, $5.00; prepaid. 
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COMPLETE PLANT FOOD 
HOTKAPS 
PROTECT CROPS AND PAY PREMIUM PROFITS 
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flower, pepper and tomato is days from 
setting plants to marketing fruits. 
ures are based on growing conditions 
here and are meant only for convenience 
in comparing earliness of varieties. 
YOUR ORDER FROM THIS CATALOG 
WILL RECEIVE OUR CAREFUL ATTEN- 
IMMEDIATELY SENT TO 
TION AND BE 
YOU. 
As HOTKAPS eliminate weather and insect damage. These patented 
Wax paper cones form miniature hot houses over each plant, promote 
sturdy growth and bring crops to maturity two to three weeks earlier. 
Thousands of farmers are getting premium prices, making big money 
every year by using HOTKAPS. Inexpensive to buy. Easy to set out. 
One man can place 2000 or more per day. 
Prices: 1000 for $18.35, 250 package with Setter and Tamper, $5.90, 
100 package with Setter and Tamper, $3.15. HotKap Home Garden 
package, 95c; Steel Setter, $1.95. Postage extra. 
