1856-1954 
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CENTURY IN S© 
The year 1956 is an important point in the history of Asgrow: 
it marks the end of our first century in seeds and the beginning 
of our second century of service to the American vegetable 
industry. This organization, which began on a New England 
farm one hundred years ago, now comprises more than forty 
installations located in as many parts of the country, where 
Asgrow seeds are bred and developed, grown and processed, 
packaged and distributed. 
This year we have chosen to show something of these activities 
on the cover of our Market Grower’s Guide, in place of the 
usual pictures of vegetables, because we think the users of 
this: Guide will like a glimpse of a few of the men and women 
and their many and varied activities which all combine to 
make ASGROW a symbol of integrity in the vegetable industry. 
On the cover, you will find for example, an Asgrow plant 
breeder hand-pollinating a broccoli plant, the first step in 
developing a new variety. Above, to the right, you will see 
members of the Asgrow Breeding and Research Department 
inspecting the results of that kind of work in the pea variety 
trials at the Asgrow Research Center, Twin Falls, Idaho. At 
the. bottom three members of the research staff are serving 
as a taste panel, evaluating new varieties after processing in 
the Asgrow pilot food processing plant at the Research Center. 
Asq row) One Hundred Years and still growing 
Elsewhere you will find a seed technologist at the Research 
Center, carefully analyzing a seed sample for purity; another 
technologist stands in one of the large germination chambers 
of the modern laboratory at the Center, where each year 
samples from the thousands of different Asgrow seed crops 
are tested. 
At the top center is a large bean seed production field in 
California, and to the left is a bean seed thresher, of a type 
specially developed for Asgrow several years ago, when we 
found after considerable research that ordinary threshing 
machinery injured the seed and lowered its ability to germi- 
nate. You will also see men processing seed at Asgrow in- 
stallations in the West, where most Asgrow seed crops are 
grown, under optimum conditions of climate and soil, to pro- 
duce seed of high germination and vigor, free from seed- 
borne diseases. 
In the center is the building in which is located our head- 
quarters in New Haven, Connecticut, just a few minutes drive 
from the New England farm where Asgrow began a century 
ago, and where, as shown at the bottom left hand corner of 
the page, we still maintain one of our most important in- 
Stallations, the Asgrow Eastern Breeding Station. 
NEW VARIETIES 
Asgrow Introductions 
Topmost bean 
Georgia 912 collard 
Asgrow Golden 22 sweet corn 
Asgrow W1, short-day hybrid onion 
Asgrow Y52, long-day hybrid onion 
Alamo tomato 
Homestead 24 
U.S.D.A. and State Experiment Station Introductions 
Associated Seed Growers, Inc. 
Main Office: New Haven 2, Connecticut 
Asgrow Research Center 
Twin Falls, Idaho 
Breeding stations 
Franklin, Indiana Bradenton, Florida 
Milpitas, California San Antonio, Texas 
Orange, Connecticut Twin Falls, Idaho 
Growing stations and warehouses 
Ashton, Idaho Nampa, Idaho 
Carson City, Michigan Powell, Wyoming 
Fairfield, Washington Rexburg, Idaho 
Filer, Idaho i 
Fremont, Nebraska Ried “daho 
Genesee, Idaho 
Gonzales, California St. Anthony, Idaho 
San Antonio, Texas 
Kalispell, Montana : 
Salinas, California 
Milford, Connecticut 
Mt. Vernon, Washington Sheboygan, Wisconsin 
Brooks and Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada 
Sales branches and distributing warehouses 
Aflanta 2, Georgia 
Cambridge, New York 
Downey, California 
El Centro, California 
Exmore, Virginia 
Indianapolis 25, Indiana 
Memphis 2, Tennessee 
Milford, Connecticut 
Oakland 4, California 
Salinas, California 
Vineland, New Jersey 
Distributors for Texas and New Mexico 
AsGRow TExas Co., San Antonio 11, Texas 
Crystal City Robstown Weslaco 
Distributors for Florida 
THE KiLGore SEED Co., Plant City 
International Division 
AsGRow Export CorpPoraTION, Milford, Connecticut 
Asgrow warrants that the seeds, bulbs and plants it sells will be, at the time of shipment, as described on 
the container within recognized tolerances. Asgrow gives no other or further warranty, express or implied. 
Asgrow limits its liability on the foregoing warranty and its liability by reason of any other cause whatsoever 
to the amount of the purchase price of such seeds, bulbs and plants. 
