Historic, Archive Document Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices. GARDEN SPOT SEEDS PUT UP ONLY IN BIG HANDSOME 10 CENT PACKETS —'WHY ? IP you are going to plant, be sure and plant enough seeds to have bountiful crops. How many times have you raised nice tomatoes, potatoes, celery, beans or other vegetables yet had only sufficient for a meal or two. The family said “only wish we had grown more of those good things,” but it is too late, then. The 10c packets of Garden Spot seeds are always plenty for a good sized patch. Enough for a family’s eating, during their sea- son. Takes only a little more work to plant and cultivate ten cents worth of seeds than five cents worth — and you get twice or three times as much vegetables or flowers. At the request of thousands of our customers who have been most successful in growing big crops, we now sell only 10c packets. Seeds That Make Good You run no risk in buying a ten cent packet of GARDEN SPOT SEEDS. Don’t spend even a few cents upon unknown seeds. Garden Spot Seeds are guaranteed seeds. Your money and your work will never be wasted. They are the freshest and best quality of the particular variety offered. We guarantee them to grow, and to produce if properly cultivated, and will replace them if thru any fault of the seeds you should be dissatisfied. Spend ten cents for a packet of Garden Spot Seeds and reap harvests of flowers or vegetables worth several dollars. The best seed investment you can make. Garden Spot Seeds are never held in stores for months. They come to you fresh from our warehouses, thru our agents who solicit your order. Our agents should call once a year offering the Garden Spot 10c packets of Fresh Guaranteed Seeds. Our agent for your locality will show you this catalog and ask you to buy of him. The price is the same whether you order of him or send your remittance direct. Please patronize our agent if at all convenient. Don’t Buy Packets of Seed from Unknown Concerns when for 10c a packet you can get a large quantity of tested, guaran- teed, honest seed — Garden Spot Seed. We assure you of the best 10c worth of seed value you ever purchased. Buy of our agent — we stand back of the seed in every way. LANCASTER COUNTY SEED COMPANY PARADISE, PA. Ralph W. Eby, President. SosvAm SfjA Skajdja vnl Sirv*, &&&& clover ojwL \S/vs, wMt^'oJvjL tbssuL Cl A531635 AUG 30 i 9 P9 THE most fertile agricultural county in the whole United States, (proven by United States Government reports). Does it not stand to reason that you will receive better seeds from an establishment of that kind than from a country store, a drug store, or a mail-order house which is located in a huge city office building? Every packet of seeds you buy from us comes direct from our Lancaster County seed houses, and guaranteed to be fresh, prolific and to germinate true to type. We carefully test by our germinating processes every neV lot of seed as gathered and placed in our warehouses. All that which does not come up to our rigid standards is promptly rejected. If you wish for knowledge you will go to a university where most knowledge is to be had. If you wish for business, you will place your establishment upon the busiest street in the town; and if you wish good seed, you should go to the section of the country where the largest crops have been raised and are being raised. This will surely point you to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and to the Lancaster Seed Company. In buying from our agents you are not only doing them a favor, but assuring: yourself of the best possible value in seeds. All the seed we handle is guaranteed to be fresh, new and bursting with fertility. Our agents never carry seeds on hand, but only take orders for what is required, such orders being shipped at once from’ us and delivered to their customers. You are thus assured of seeds just out of the warehouse, which have been fully tested for fertility and guaranteed to grow if you will do your part in cultivation. JUST WHAT THEY ALL SAY I had no trouble in disposing of your seeds; I sold fifteen packets in ten min- utes. I shall expect to have another order in soon. Bulah Stokly, Wattsville, Va. I received the seeds Saturday. Every one of my friends gladly took three or four packets, one took eleven. I will sell another lot. Miss Edna Kibler, Nevada, Mo. My mother planned twelve packets of your seed. They have more than pleased her, all came up and are the healthiest looking plants that we have ever had. She intends to get her seed from you every year. I expect to be your agent next season, so send me a catalog early. Ermie Gogle, Whelen Springs, Ark. I have never attempted to sell any- thing that was so eagerly received and so easily disposed of as your Garden Spot Seeds. W. H. Bruister, Somerville, Tenn. From the seed I got from you last year I made thirty-five dollars ($35) out of a hotbed 5x32 feet. Besides I had 300 plants of tomato and 200 cab- bage for myself. Tom Sidwell, Radley, Kans. Your seeds are easy to sell. I sold a third of them to one neighbor. You have the best offers of any firm I know of. I think your- seeds are fine. Jewell Hitt, Moran, Tex. I have sold the seeds. My customers said there was the most in a packet they ever saw for the money. Minnie Gatewood, Chesterfield, S. C. Took my seed book, which you sent me, which has the names- and pictures of the seed, apd started out. In two hours’ time I sold $3 worth. When I receive the seeds I will deliver them and send for another lot. I will bo your agent for seeds as long as I am able. Amanda Parish, Argos, Ind. I like your seeds and enjoy selling: them, as they sell well. A. M. Harper, Bassfield, Miss. We planted some of your seeds and they all came up fine, as you said they would. I hope to order a good many seeds from you next year. Lee Sanford, New Verda, La. I received your Garden Spot Seeds and have found them to be good sellers and could have sold more. Everyone said there were more seeds in the pack- ets than they ever saw for the price. Pat Lightsey, Centerville, Ala. s BEANS Bash Lima. The dwarf variety and enormously productive plant, often pro- ducing as high as 200 pods. The pods are just as large as those of the pole variety, and contain three to five very large fat beans of superior quality. Try this variety. Pennsylvania Batter. One of the best we have ever seen. A marvelous yielder of gigantic pods, filled with extra large, thick, most deliciously flavored butter beans. Largest podded, largest seeded, heaviest cropper of all beans. They continue to bear most abundantly until frost. which we can thoroughly recommend to gardeners, either amateur or profes- sional. Early Red Valentine. Bush, dwarf, or snap variety. This is an improved strain which produces the very fleshy round and saddle back pods, with strings hardly noticeable at all. The bushes are uniformly about 15 inches in height. Stringless Green Pod. Pods are rich green, 5 inches long. Solidly meaty and entirely stringless. One of the best early beans that we know. BEETS Kentucky Wonder. Pole or running bean. An early and very prolific sort, with showy pods, which are most excel- lent for snapping. These pods are green and very long, often reaching 9 or 10 inches. The vine is vigorous and bears well in almost any climate. It will please you. One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 365 Plants Early Red Globe. Ready for the table within forty days of planting. A round beet, with smooth skin and slim roots. Good for either home or market use. Sweet and tender. Golden Wax. A genuine snap bean. Pods are a bright yellow, and from 4 to 6 inches long. The bean is entirely stringless and very brittle. Our own variety, of which we feel proud and Long Dark Blood. Grows to good size, being half way out of the ground. Skin dark purple, almost black; flesh dark red, very tender and sweet. Keeps well. 4 SELECTED- — TESTED NEW CROP-TRUE TO NAME GUARANTEED TO GROW CARROTS On© Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 1,000 Plants Early Jersey Wakefield. Recom- mended to our customers as the very- best early strain. Produces solid heads of excellent size. Very few outside leaves. Cabbage is one of the most staple of crops, and will always com- mand a good price. All Seasons. Heads very large, round and somewhat flattened. Called "All Seasons” because just as good in au- tumn as in early summer. Remarkable for its ability to stand hot sun or dry weather. Leaves are large and smobth, and on the whole the plant Is very easy to raise. Does not hurt it to stand. Midsummer Flat Dutch. The heads are very large, sound, very broad and flat on top and come out a beautiful bluish green. In addition to large size, the flavor is delicious, and you can usually obtain a few cents more for this variety than any other. It ma- tures before many of the others. Autumn King. The cabbage for profit. Has such small outer leaves that you can plant cljser. A bigger crop per acre than any other variety, produces large solid heads of dark green, which keep indefinitely. On© Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 2,180 Plants Ox-hearts. Produces early, of bright orange, fine grained and sweet carrots, which will be much enjoyed. By far the best early variety. Danvers Half Lon g. A standard va- riety for general crops, producing a meaty, rich, orange-colored vegetable. Suitable for all kinds of soil. Yields bountifully and keeps splendidly. CELERY One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 2,600 Plants Golden Heart. Solid, of fine flavor and a good keeper. As its name indi- cates, it possesses, when blanched, a yellowish or golden tint. Add celery to your crops this season, trying espe- cially this variety, and it will pay you well in money and in satisfaction. Giant Pascal. Another variety which helps you to see the profits in celery. Produces very large, thick, solid, crisp stalks of a superior nutty flavor. The heart is golden yellow. Keeps welL 5 KNOWN WITH FAVOR FROM MAINE TO MEXICO y/TKyr-z \£p,t'£'. iSunt'/SQ Corn Country '*&&& 5S&& CUCUMBER One Paeket Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 225 Plants Arlington Extra Early. The best cu- cumber for home consumption that we know of. Easy to raise; grows strongly, large foliage, and does not sunburn. Yields early. Large fruit for slicing can be pulled in eight weeks. Klondike. A very early variety, beau- tiful in shape and color. Fruit is of splendid size, with very white, crisp, tender flesh. With a packet or so of seeds you can raise enough cucumbers for home spicing, preserving and use through the year. Excelsior Long Green. A well-known variety which never fails to give satisr faction. Fruit often grows a full foot long. Vine very vigorous and produc- tive. Young fruit makes the finest pickles you ever put in your mouth, while the ripe fruit makes a superior quality of sweet pickles. Jersey Pickling. Exclusively for pick- ling and preserving. Strong vine which fruits very early. The young cucum- bers are thickly set with small spines, and make excellent large or small pickles. We recommend these thor- ouhgly, also for slicing. COLLARDS One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 1,250 Plants Georgia. A variety of cabbage known in different sections as cole, cole-wort, or simply “greens.” Try planting a packet and see how “your folks” enjoy it. Forms a large, loose, open head, or a mass of leaves on a tall stem and is served just like greens. Freezing does not injure, but rather improves its quality. SWEET CORN Early Sunrise. Absolutely the ear- liest good sweet corn that grows, giv- ing you roasting ears on the table sixty days after planting. Large grains, and of a luscious taste. Plant at least one packet of this variety. StowelPs Evergreen. This should yield about two weeks after Early Sunrise. Broad, vigorous foliage. Ears are set low on stalks. Grains pure white and very sweet. Will keep much longer than ordinary varieties. Country Gentleman. Here is a very late variety. Excellent table corn, hav- ing plump white kernels of great depth and fine flavor. Ears of medium size and small cob. Readily raised. FRIENDS IN EVERY STATE AND COUNTY IN THE UNITED STATES POP CORN White Rice. The kind that makes the splendid popping corn. You will want a few rows of it in your garden to enliven the long winter nights. Pays big profits, too, as a market vegetable, commanding good prices and always in demand. Ears average 6 inches in length. EGG PLANT — One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 265 Plants New York Improved. An early vari- ety, which is simply delicious. Remark- ably handsome and prolific, being en- tirely free from spines. Develops a large plant, which bears from two to six large fruits with flesh nearly white. ENDIVE — One Packet Contains Suffi- cient Seeds to Produce 1,700 Plants Winter Lettuce. Fine autumn curled. Eat more salads and attain long life. Endive salad is recommended by physi- cians as particularly healthful. Grows all the year, and is a welcome change from ordinary lettuce. KALE — One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 1,500 Plants For Greens. Kale is more hardy than cabbage, and will stand through the entire winter in any ordinary season in the south. Most finely flavored of the cabbage tribe. Justly it is much fa- vored for greens in the south during winter and sprfng, and physicians pro- nounce it most healthful and delicious. LETTUCE — One Packet Contains Suffi- cient Seeds to Produce 2,700 Plants Prize Head. Large, thin-leaved and clustering variety. Salad exceedingly tender, crisp and sweet in a large, loose head. The family will enjoy it and the neighbors will ask you where you get such delicious lettuce. Easy to raise. Big Boston. A compact-head strain. Very popular among those who prefer solid-head lettuce. The leaves are short and rounded, slightly crumpled. Deep green, with broad edges. Grand Rapids. A home-garden fa- vorite because of its being hardy and requiring less care than many other varieties. It is loose-leaved and does not form a head, but makes very large, compact bunches of green leaves with curled edges. The flavor is delicious, and the salad is very fine. MUSTARD — One Packet Contains Suffi- cient Seeds to Produce 5,000 Plants New Chinese. A plant different from what most of your neighbors will have. Produces leaves of a pleasant pungent flavor, which are exceptionally appe- tizing when served on a salad. The Chinese claim it valuable as a preven- tive medicine. Ready to use six weeks after sowing, and will continue to yield until frost. 7 C“=Suw>S.- A BIG HOME garden is the best and biggest money saver and the largest producer of money-saving food supplies you can have. Planted in the right things at the right time and properly handled will produce a home-grown dinner the year round. Order your seeds now. Don’t wait, like so many do, until too late, and then have to plant your garden with inferior seeds from boxes in the store. It pays to buy seeds early and have them on hand ready for planting time. Periods for Sowing Seeds in Open Ground First Period — Blooming of the peach, plant peas. Second Period — Blooming of the peach and cherry, plant spinach and lettuce. Third Period — Blooming of the pear, all of the before-mentioned with addition of radish, celery, carrot, beet, mustard, onion, parsley, tomato, cabbage, parsnip. Fourth Period — Blooming of the apple, all the preceding with addi- tion of salsify, beans, corn, cucumber, melons, pumpkin, okra. Time required for seeds to germinate — under favorable conditions: Peas, beans and corn should sprout in three days. Cabbage, tur- nips and radish in four days. Vine seeds, melons, squash and cucum- ber in five or six days. Plant 'beans successively every two or three weeks from early May to end of July and you will have green beans until October or November. To have tomatoes very early it is necessary to start plants in hot- bed. To have tomatoes extremely late, just before frost, pick all the well-dveloped fruits, spread them singly in a light, frost-proof place and they will continue ripening for two months. For pickles, cucumber seed can be sown later in July. Salsify and parsnips, the first welcome friends of spring, may be left in the ground all winter. Plant peas every two weeks and you will have peas all summer. For winter turnips sow broadcast in your corn field the last of July or August. Plant some pumpkins for next fall and winter pumpkin pies. It costs nothing to grow them, as they can be planted among the corn. No winter vegetable store is complete without good Hubbard squash. Bake it like sweet potatoes. Don’t fail to pinch back the long shoots on watermelon vines. Sow cabbage seed in February for an early summer crop. April and May for an autumn crop. Plant lima beans with the eyes down. Plant sweet corn every two weeks up until sixty days of frost. Be sure to have a hotbed in which to start slow-growing plants, such as pepper, egg plant, celery, parsley, cauliflower. And plants for early use, such as cabbage, beet, tomato, Brussels sprouts, lettuce. Water your hotbed every evening and cover with mats before sunset. Remove in the morning about 9 o’clock. If you must water your garden, it is best done at sunset. It is harmful to water at any other time. Do not kill the toads. They are the gardener’s best friend. They do not harm your vegetables, and eat thousands of insects which might be very destructive. In France gardeners pay 25 cents each for toads. To kill cabbage worms, melon lice, rose slugs, leaf rollers, root maggots, caterpillars, and scale insects, use kerosene emulsion. To make: One quart soft soap, one quart kerosene, two quarts of water; thoroughly mix and dilute with sixteen quarts water. Best when ap- plied warm with force sprayer. Should you use Paris green be careful not to burn your plants — one pound is enough for 150 gallons of water. Safety can be assured by adding 4 gallons of lime water. To kill cut worms use Kainit, a potash salt, which destroys the worm and stimulates plant growth. To prevent your watermelons from sunburn, sow buckwheat broad- cast when the vines are about half grown, which by the time the melons are ripe will protect them partially from the sun. For cucumber bugs and onion fly dust with wood ashes, or lime and eoot. Three things necessary to raise fine vegetables: Extra good seed, rich, mellow soil and thorough cultivation. 8 What the Government Says About why seeds bought from mail order houses germinate better than seeds bought in stores: “There is doubtless an economic reason for the higher average quality of the seeds sold by mail order houses, as compared with the seeds sent out by many of the houses selling box seeds. It is possible for a new firm or one without reputation to purchase a large quantity of seeds, put up in packets or boxes, and by means of attractive prices dispose of them to local merchants. Mail order houses, on the other hand, are dependent for their trade on proportionately few new cus- tomers each year, their trade being based largely on the satisfactory quality of their seeds which purchasers have used in previous years. “The sale of packeted vegetable seeds will not be on a proper basis until each packet is labeled with the percentage of live seed which it contains.” — From a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, July 5, 1914, at Washington, D. C. All Garden Spot Seed is Live Seed Had -the Government been speaking of Garden Spot Seeds, its endorsement would have been scarcely more pronounced. All the seed sold by us is live seed — the choicest of last year’s crop, and guaranteed to be of the highest vitality. Here in our immense warehouse, right in the thick of Lancaster County, our seeds are selected, packaged and warranted in the honest good, old-fashioned Lancaster County way. Lancaster County is truly the “Garden Spot of America,” and Garden Spot Seeds typify the won- derful fertility and rugged honor of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Visit Us if You Can You are invited to stop and see us when in our vicinity. We are always glad to welcome our friends and show them through the most complete seed-house in the world. You will not find sooty factories, nor crowded streets, but big roomy buildings with plenty of light and air, where contented farmers’ daughters and farmers’ sons work to supply you with the seeds that are satisfactory. Lancaster County is Worth Seeing If you are interested at all in farming. Its wonderful crops are due to the extremely fertile soil, coupled with the intelligent and careful cultivation by the Mennonite farmers — a thrifty, peaceful, home-loving people who have occupied these lands for years and have handed down the art of farming from father to son. The European system of getting the biggest crops from a specified amount of soil — so-called “intensive cultivation” — is fully understood here. Seeds raised in Lancaster County seem to absorb from the soil the sturdiness, fertility and desire to grow bountifully, which is a part ©f this system. Picture a Land of Plenty Travelers in this district pronounce it the most beautiful farming country that they ever saw. Broad fields stretch everywhere, varied with bluish hillocks in the dim distance. There is all around an atmo- sphere of peace and plenty. Farm land is worth from $150 to $200 an acre. The barns for hous- ing the enormous crops cost from $3000 to $6000 to build. The soil in many places is from two to three feet in depth — raising every variety of crop from the lordly tobacco to the humble potato. Surely seeds from such an agricultural paradise are what you want to plant. Muskmelon One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 225 Plants Osage Orange. A few muskmelons in the garden willprovide a delicious des- sert. or the fruit course for the morn- ing breakfast. Plant a packet of these seeds and produce a quantity of sweet and highly flavored melons ,of medium size, slightly ribbed and dark green in. color. Rocky Ford. Known the world over for its flavor and quick maturity. Ma- tures in seventy days. The fruit is oval and slightly ribbed, being densely covered with a fine net. Flesh is light green, with a line of gold just beneath the skin. Honey Gem. A new variety which we can heartily recommend to those who wish heavy crops. It is “all melon” because of the seed cavity, being small containing only few seeds. weight. In color striped light and dark green. Produces bountifully of excel- lent melons. Kleckley Sweets. One of those “melt- in-the-mouth” melons which take the parch out of a hot summer day. Ob- long in shape, skin dark green, flesh bright red. Solid and delicious. Dixie. An exceedingly popular vari- ety with all melon-lovers. Fine and vigorous, large growing and hardy. It produces fruit very early, medium size to large. Dark green skin, flesh bright scarlet. Nasturtium Dwarf, Mixed Colors. Give an edging or a finish to any flower or vegetable plot. The flowers are beautiful, and will furnish you with much pleasure in cultivating. The dwarf variety is used for pickling, the same as the tall vari- ety (see below). Watermelon One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 86 Plants Georgia Rattlesnake. Bears a fruit which is very juicy and sweet, growing to the largest size. Many report pro- ducing melons as high as 80 pounds in Tall, Mixed Colors. Plant for flowers if you wish, but especially recom- mended for seed purposes. The seeds for pickling should be gathered while green and with A portion of the stem attached. They make a tasty pickle, which is somewhat different from th* rest of the pickles. 10 PLANTED EVERY YEAR- IN OYER. 400,000 GARDENS’ plgJS Okra One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 285 Plants Velvet. Highly appreciated for coups and stews, or anywhere a flavor- ing is needed. A typical southern vegetable, which is much esteemed in all portions of the country. Pods start within 3 inches of the ground, and the whole plant is covered with them to its extreme height. Look very pretty growing and are a profitable crop. Onion One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 900 Plants Wethersfield. A favorite red sort. Produces large handsome bulbs, having firm white flesh of fine flavor. An onion for all purposes, grown by the thou- sands of bushels everywhere. Globe Danvers. As the name indi- cates the bulb produced is nearly globe shape and grows to 2 inches in diam- eter, at least. Skin is light golden brown, flesh pure white, and mild in flavor. Silver Skin. Note the typical onion shape, shown by the cut. Produces an abundance of solid and heavy bulbs, in flesh pure, white, close and fine grained, with a strength and flavor. Makes a first-class “table” onion. Peas Alaska. Very early, fine, strong and vigorous, growing to 2% inches high, of a rich grade of light green. Heady for picking fifty days after planting. Peas round blue and slightly pitted. Always tender and of a superior flavor whieh delights you. Pea, American Wonder. Vigorous productive vines, with luxurious foliage. Grow low, never more than one foot high, which makes them very desir- able for the home garden. Pods are light colored, straight and round. Pea, Large, White Marrowfat. Grows very high; vines being from 4 to 6 feet. Pods are round, light colored and filled with large, smooth, white peas. Experienced gardeners state that they are the most productive of any variety. Pride of the Market. A round pea, growing not more than 18 inches high. Pods of enormous size, nine to ten on a vine, containing as many peas in each. pod. Can be picked in sixty days, and will be found delicious in flavor. 11 IN 72 STANDARD SORTS NOTHING BUT TRUE AND TRIED VARIETIES PARSLEY One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 2,200 Plants Champion Moss-Curled. A greatly improved type of this useful class of herbs. Especially handsome in form and color. Invaluable as a garnishing plant. When mixed with drawf orna- mental foliage plants they add greatly to the looks of a garden. PARSNIP One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 1,200 Plants Hollow Crown. Roots comparatively short, ending abruptly with small tap- root. Vegetable grows mostly below the surface. Has a very smooth, clean skin, and is easily dug and prepared for home use or marketing. PEPPER One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 280 Plants Bull Nose. Peppers grow more pop- ular every year, both served as a vegetable, used as a flavoring, or em- ployed fop preserving purposes. This variety grows very large, thick flesh, mild flavor. Very suitable for pickling, highly esteemed for stuffing. Mexican Chili. A large producer, big fruits of a ruby-red color, thick flesh. Valued for giving flavor to various dishes. Invaluable in the kitchen. PUMPKIN One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce from 60 to 80 Plants Early Sugar. Exceedingly choice and delicious variety. Fruit averages about 10 inches in diameter, skin orange- yellow, flesh fine grained and very sweet. Will keep for weeks after ripening. Japanese Pie. An odd looking pump- kin of Japanese origin, which will give your family pleasure. The flesh is very thick, of rich salmon color, fine grained, dry and sweet. Makes delicious pie, or can be prepared in other ways which the housekeeper knows so well. The seed cavity is very small, ripens quite early and keeps in good condition. Large Cheese. Grows to splendid size and gives many a delicate pumpkin for pie and table use. Creamy yellow skin, thick orange flesh of fine quality. The size of the pumpkins you will raise will astound you and they will keep well for weeks. RUTABAGA One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to Produce 2,400 Plants American Purple Top. Plant a few in your turnip patch. They produce long oval-shaped roots with small necks; skin dark purple above the ground and yellow below. Flesh rich yellow, fine grained. Keeps for months. 12 FROM THE GARPEN SPOT OF AMERICA LANCASTER COUNTY. PA. SALSIFY OR OYSTER PLANT RADISH One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 900 plants Crimson Giant. Grows to an enor- mous size, yet retains the crispness and mild flavor of a small radish. Looks like a turnip, but tastes like a radish. Remains in perfect condition a re- markably long time, without becoming pithy. The color is a beautiful crim- son carmine, firm, crisp and tender flesh. White Tipped, Early Scarlet. The earliest radish we have ever seen. Ma- tures in eighteen days. The flesh is pure white, crisp and of a character- istic flavor. Can be sown very close, and will produce strong. Long Scarlet, Short Top. A variety which never fails to give satisfaction. Tops short, comparatively small, roots smooth, slender, uniform in shape and a very attractive bright red in color. They grow half out of the ground, and continue crisp and tender until matured (about 6 inches long). "White Icicle. For those who wish a pure white radish these are unexcelled. They mature very early, producing a fine, pure white root, which remains crisp and tender until they reach a large size. Try a small patch of White Icicle for a change. One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 400 plants. Mammoth. Easy to grow, exception- ally fine taste when cooked, very sim- ilar in flavor to the oyster. The variety we offer matures to extra-large size, grows strongly and is not liable to branch. SPINACH One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 760 plants. Victoria. A healthful plant often prescribed by doctors instead of med- icine. Our offering forms a very large, exceedingly thick, very dark-green leaf, slightly curled in center. SQUASH One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce from 70 to 100 plants. Hubbard. The most popular of all winter varieties. Grows late, but good, and it will keep from September to May. Produces large size squashes, often weighing from 9 to 25 pounds. Color, bluish-green. Fine grained, dry flesh, well flavored. Pattypan. The earliest of all sum- mer varieties. Pure white scalloped and makes a handsome appearnce in the garden. Gives you a “dish of squash” sooner than you ever would have expected. Fruit is beautifully clear, waxy white and tender, of dwarf habit. Hardy and vigorous. MORE ACTUAL SEEP VALUE THAN TH05E SOLP IN 5T0RE5-BUY SOME TRY SOME ANP YOU WILL PLANT THEM ALWAYS SUNFLOWER One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 150 plants. Mammoth Russian. While considered in the flower family, its seeds are very valuable as an excellent and cheap food for fowls. They fatten well on it, and attain a bright lustrous plum- age and strong healthy condition. This variety grows heads which measure 22 inches in diameter, containing much SWEET PEAS One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 100 plants Mixed Colors. Makes a beautiful fragrant flower, which is exceedingly easy to raise. Nothing surpasses a bunch of sweet peas on the table, with their odorous fragrance and sweet ap- pearance. Our sweet peas are notable for their hardiness, their abundant producing qualities and their beautiful colors. TOMAT© One Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 750* plants New Stone. Grows those large, smooth, solid, meaty tomatoes you like so much. The stem is set high, core small and solid so that little is lost when taken out of the fruit before slicing. They are rich, vivid scarlet. Beauty. This produces a very smooth. large tomato. Fine, large, vigorous and heavy bearer. The tomatoes grow large, uniform and smooth texture of a rich purplish pink. Cut into one and you will find the flesh of a delicious flavor. Plant some of these. Matchless. Bright red color, solid meated, fine flavored variety, grows strongly, produces plenty of fruit of large size. TURNIP On© Packet Contains Sufficient Seeds to produce 3,500 plants. Whit© Plat Butch. Excellent early garden variety. Handsome shape. Roots grow to medium size, very flat and pure white. Sweet, tender and especially fine for table use. If you wish the earliest turnips plant these. Globe, Barge Red Top. Guaranteed to mature in sixty-five days. Good size and extremely heavy producer. When properly cooked this turnip is delicious. Or if you wish to raise a few vegetables for the market Globe Red Top will bring you big money. Purple Top, Strap Eeaf. Exceedingly large strap-leaved variety, used the country over on the best tables. The leaves are few and entirely upright in growth. Roots grow flat, of a medium size, purple or dark red above ground and white below. Flesh is white, fine- grained and tender. Will please you. UNCLE SAM ENDORSES LANCASTER COUNTY Extracts from statistics and statements in pam- phlets put out by the United States Government, March 6, 1914: “When the statistics of the United States census of 1870 were prepared and pub- lished, they proclaimed Lancaster County to be the greatest of all agricultural counties. The aggre- gate value of farm products of that county exceeded its closest competitor, St. Lawrence County New York, by two million dollars. Ten years later the census returns showed a like result — the nearest com- petitor to Lancaster County then being Monroe County, New York, which lagged three million dollars behind. “In the census of 1890, the leading agricultural counties were Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and St. Lawrence County, New York, and the latter was within one million dollars of winning. The returns of the census of 1900 classified Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, as a single county, and although its karea was eight times that of Lancaster County, yet the latter won out by a narrow margin. In the last census, that of 1910, .the name of Lancaster County again led all of the race for agricultural supremacy, winning against Los Angeles County, Califor- nia, with an aggregate value of $20,767,145 of farm products. Los Angeles County has four times the area of Lancaster County. Seeds Raised in Lancaster Comity actually absorb from the soil that sturdiness, that fertility, that sure desire to grow which is a part of everything cultivated in this “Garden Spot” of America. Why not buy your seeds from Lancaster County and assure these qualities as well as receive the honesty of treatment and integrity of dealing, which is as much a part of Lancaster County inhabitants as their ability to raise huge crops of the world’s staples? t LANCASTER COUNTY SEED CO. PARADISE, PA. Does Gardening Pay? How many dollars will you spend this year for vegetables? How many hour* Can you spend this year in the garden? If labor is what you sell, why not sell it to yourself? Get your pencil. Suppose you begin gardening April 15th and spend thirty minutes every workday in your garden till August 15th. On August 15th your gardening efforts would be over except the joy of a continual harvest and you would have spent about fifty hours at this work. At three dollars a day for your labor the garden has cost fifteen dollars. The seed to plant the garden would not cost more than you would have had to pay to have the weeds cut if you had not gardened. Vegetables can be placed upon your table from this garden every workday and Sunday, too, from June 1st till Christmas — two hundred days. If you use eight cents’ worth a day from the garden for yourself and family during that time, you have received sixteen dollars. That’s thirty cents an hour for your labor and the gift of a dollar. If your garden is 44x100 feet you are growing vegetables on one-tenth of an acre and making land pay at one hundred and sixty dollars an acre. Many gardeners do very much better than this. You have during a part of each day better than a three-dollar-a-day job in your garden. If and the Garden If you are so rich that servants quietly anticipate your wish, your table is seriously lacking when vegetables come other than dew-bejeweled from your garden. If you should come to be so poor that the wolf- came to the door, remember the vegetable garden is the best barricade ever erected between that animal and yourself. If to you the world’s best music is the laughter of your child, your garden is that child’s best kindergarten as possibly it was the kindergarten of the race. If you love colors, the fleeting rainbow is permanently outrivaled in these things that grow and change. If you are tired of the crowd, make your garden a little park for the thought- ful or quiet hour. If just now it is little practical things that interest you, remember that a garden it is well to own when the unexpected guest comes at meal time. 15 faghhortyy, MrsSmith your garden is lookingfine, where did you get your seeds?' Mps.Smitfh I use only Garden Spot Seeds, buying them from the regular agent of the Lancaster County Seed Co -They grow fine healthy looking plants every time. I believe every seed came up" M/gbkor I got mine down at the store and Hiey didn't half come up. I’ll have to replant nearly all my garden and do the work oven” * • J Mrs.Sm/fh&z'tisx buy your seeds from the ‘.Lancaster County Seed Co and you will y always have satisfaction.”