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CONTRACT

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CROP 1929

PIETERS-WHEELER SEED COMPANY

GILROY, CALIFORNIA

WHOLESALE GROWERS

OF

HIGH QUALITY

GARDEN SEEDS

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of Quality^

JAN 2 2 1929

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v^egetable Seed Trials

VEGETABLE SEEDS OF QUALITY ^

J^ACH. year, it is ^rowin^ more (9 apparent that the production of Vegetables is becoming highly specialized and is fast ^ettin^ into the hands of Truckers and Market Gardeners whose liveli¬ hoods depend largely on the quality of their products, and who demand from their Seedsman True Types of Highest Merit.

We have anticipated this ^rowin^ demand for Seledi Strains of Car¬ rot, Lettuce, Onion, Lie., Etc., and have for the past several years de¬ voted a considerable acreage to Seledlion and Breeding work.

We are offering in this list, stocks. Carefully Bred, Critically Ro^ued, Cleaned and prepared wi{h all pos¬ sible care to prevent any mixtures. We believe that there are no better stocks obtainable and that you may depend on them to ^ive sat¬ isfaction to your most critical trade. Seed of doubtful quality may be purchased cheaper, but why take chances? Quality will pay in the lon^ run.

We respedifully solicit your business

PIETERS-WHEELER SEED COMPANY

For terms and conditions of sale please see Page 12

LBS.	VARIETY	Price Per lb.
	BEET Crosby’s Egyptian . .
	Detroit Dark Red .
	Ex. Ey. Flat Egyptian .
	Edmund’s Blood Turnip .
	Ey. Blood Turnip .
	Early Wonder, Extra Select .
	Fireball .
	Swiss Chard, See Page 6 .
	CELERY Golden Self Blanching Vilmorin (Old Type) .
	Golden Self Blanching Vilmorin (New Type) .
	1 White Plume . ■
	Giant Pascal . '
	Golden Plume .
	Celeriac Giant Prague .
	DILL Long Island Mammoth .
	ENDIVE Broad Batavian .
	Green Curled .
	Green Curled Red Ribbed .
	Green Curled Pancalier .
	Drppn Cnrled Rnffec. . . .
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Select

Carrot Stocks

We are doing* extensive selection and breeding work on Carrot and offer Choice and Improved strains.

Chantenay, New Coreless

This is of the accepted shape and type of Chantenay, but shows Red all the way through without yellow core. It is there¬ fore very attractive both for Salad and Cooking purposes.

LBS. I VARIETY

. Chantenay .

. . Chanteney, New Coreless .

(See description above)

. Danver’s Half Long .

. Hutchinson Danvers .

. Early Scarlet Horn .

. Imp. Short White .

. French Forcing .

. Long Orange Improved .

. . Nantes, Coreless .

. Oxheart .

. Orange or Yellow Belgian .

. St. Valery .

. White Belgian .

White Mastodon

Improved Lettuce Stocks

After devotng several years to SIN¬ GLE plant selection we are offering many improved strains of Lettuce, each of which is the progeny of a sin¬ gle plant.

Each year we are hybridizing many hundreds plants of the leading varie¬ ties, with a view to obtaining NEW SORTS and to IMPROVING EXIST¬ ING TYPES,

Our Lettuce crops are rogued by ex¬ perts as many as four times while growing, and there are no purer or more highly bred Lettuce stocks pro¬ duced than those which we are offer¬ ing.

LBS.

VARIETY

Price Per lb.

NEW STRAINS

New York No. Twelve

This is a single plant selection of our own culture which we have heen breeding for several years. We believe it to be the outstand¬ ing selection of this variety and a great improvement over any existing types of New York. No. 12 is much earlier, makes large solid heads, uniform in matur¬ ing and of the flat head type. Several fields of this strain pro¬ duced better than 80% cut of No. 1 heads inside of 65 days from planting.

CREAMY HEART

A selection we have made from California Cream Butter. It is similar to that sort, but is ear¬ lier and without any brown spots or brown edge, and is of most excellent, tender quality. It is very desirable for early spring planting, where a butter head variety is demanded both for market and home garden. We believe it has a place in the list of lettuce, in that, for early planting it is superior to Black Seeded Tennisball and similar varieties.

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VARIETY

LBS.

LETTUCE

Price Per lb.

All Seasons .

All the Year Round .

Boston Extra Select _

Black Seeded Simpson .

Black Seeded Tennisball .

California Cream Butter .

Chicken Lettuce .

Denver Market .

Early Curled Simpson .

Grand Rapids, Improved .

Hanson Improved _

Hubbard’s Market .

Iceberg

Malta .

Mammonth Black Seeded Butter..

May Kin^ _

New York, P-W Selected _

Paris White Cos .

Prizehead .

Salamander .

Silesia Early Curled

Trianon Cos _

Unrivalled

Wayahead .

Wheeler’s Tom Thumb

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LBS.	VARIETY	Price Per lb.
	MUSTARD Chinese Curled .
	Fordhook .
	Large Smooth Leaf .
	Ostrich Plume . . .
	Southern Giant Curled .
	PARSLEY Doubled Curled .
	Hamburg Rooted .
	Moss Curled .
	Plain .
	Triple Curled .
	PARSNIP Hollow Crowned .
	Improved Guernsey .
	Long White Dutch .
	SALSIFY Mammoth Sandwich Island .
	SWISS CHARD Large Ribbed White . ..
	Lucullus .
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For terms and conditions of sale please see Page 12

Onion Seed

One of Our Specialties

Onion is very susceptible to cross pollina¬ tion. In order to eliminate all contamina¬ tion and to maintain a true type, we are building up our stocks by mother bulb se¬ lection from carefully re-sorted bulbs of se¬ lect strains. Each flower head is selfed by bagging. The seed obtained therefore be¬ comes the product of an individual plant.

LBS.	VARIETY	Price
		Per lb.

Australian Brown .

Denia (Improved Prizetaker) .

Extra Early Red Flat .

Ebenezer .

Gigantic Gibraltar .

Large Red Wethersfield .

Ohio Yellow Globe .

Prizetaker (P-W Select) .

Philadelphia Silverskin .

Sweet Spanish, Riverside Strain .

Southport Red Globe (P-W Select).

Southport Yellow Globe .

Southport White Globe .

White Portugal .

Yellow Flat Danvers .

Yellow Globe Danvers .

Yellow Strassburg (True) . I

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California

Radish Seed

Is recognized to be of much higher vitality than imported.

We are growing our stock seed from TRANSPLANTED ROOTS and offer the product as CHOICE STOCK.

LBS.	VARIETY	Price Per lb.
	Cal. Mammoth White .
	Ghartier .
	Chinese White or Celestial .
	China Rose Winter .
	Crimson Giant .
	Deer) Scarlet Turnip .
	Early Scarlet Turnip .
	French Breakfast .
	Icicle .
	1 Long Black Spanish .
	Long Scarlet Short Top
	Round Black Spanish .
	Sparkler, Bright Scarlet, Half White Tipped
	Vick’s Scarlet Globe .
	White Tipped Scarlet Turnip
	White Strassburg .
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Sweet Peas

LBS.

VARIETY

I Price I Per lb.

Supreme Spencer Mixed;

EXTRA SELECT STRAIN

Our stock seed is made up i from the finest named vari- I eties and contains many of | the latest and best types, i such as Alex Malcolm, Com¬ mander Godsall, Defiance, Elegance, Field Marshall, Geo. Shawyer, Hawlmark Pink, Hawlmark Lavender, Mary Pickford, Miss Cali¬ fornia, Mrs. Tomlin, Mrs. Tom Jones, President Hard¬ ing, Picture, Royal Scot, The Cardinal, Warrior, Youth and over

Thirty other distinct varie¬ ties, carefully blended, mak¬ ing a brilliant, showy mix¬ ture equal to anything grown.

Spencer Mixed Field Grown _

For those who require a cheaper mixture of Spencers, we are offering a Field Grown Mixture which contains many varieties, well balanced as to color.

Eckford’s Best Mixed .

A bright mixture of selected Grandiflora types in proper proportion of shades of White, Pink, Lavender, Blue, Scarlet, Yellow and Variegated.

This Agreement

Made in Duplicate

On .

by and between

Pieters- Wheeler Seed Co.

a corporation, of Gilroy, California, hereinafter called the Seller,

and

of .

hereinafter called the Purchaser.

WITNESSETH:

1. Seller agrees to sell and deliver and purchaser agrees to accept and pay for the varieties of seeds in the amounts, at the prices set forth in attached pages, and sub¬ ject to the terms and conditions herein pro¬ vided.

2. Seller agrees to plant, or cause to be planted, during the season of 1929, an acre¬ age of land which will produce, under nor¬ mal conditions, an amount of seed of the varieties herein named which will be suffi¬ cient to enable the seller to deliver the quantities of the seeds herein contracted for; and the seller agrees to deliver as soon as possible after harvest, such seeds in good merchantable condition, as herein defined, F. 0. B. growing station, containers extra at cost, and not returnable. The terms “in good merchantable condition” is defined as seeds properly cleaned for seeding pur¬ poses, approximately free from foreign seeds distinguishable by their appearance and of a germination equal to the fair aver¬ age germination of the crop of the current year.

3. In case of partial or total failure of any or all crops planted, or caused to be planted by the seller for the purpose of producing the varieties of seeds herein named, or, in case of damage to, or destruc¬ tion of the seller’s seed stocks before plant¬ ing, or to the products of such plantings, or to any seed through fire, accident or other casualty beyond seller’s control, the seller shall be obliged to deliver, if at all, propor¬ tional quantities only, and, in any event, the seller shall have the right to reserve an

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amount of seed equal to that used in said planting.

4. Purchaser shall make payment for seeds delivered, by a trade acceptance due and payable net 60 days from date of ship¬ ment, or by cash within 30 days from date of shipment, less a discount of 1%%. Pur¬ chaser shall pay interest at the rate of 7% per annum on any overdue payments of purchase price.

If, at any time, the financial condition of the purchaser becomes unsatisfactory to the seller, the purchaser agrees, upon receipt of written notice to that effect, and upon de¬ mand of the seller, to pay for the seeds in advance of shipment, less a cash discount of 1%%, and if such payment is not made within ten (10) days from the receipt of such demand for payment, this agreement shall thereupon be deemed to be breached by the purchaser.

5. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, the seller gives no undertaking or warranty express or implied, as to descrip¬ tion, quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds sold by it and will not be in any way responsible for the crop.

6. Purchaser’s claims for shortage of de¬ liveries must be made to seller immediately on receipt of shipment and all germination tests must be made and reported in writing (including telegram) by purchaser to seller within 15 days after receipt of shipment.

In Witness Whereof, the parties have hereunto set their hands on the day and year first above written.

Pieters- Wheeler Seed Company,

The Seller.

By .

The Purchaser.

By .

Special Instructions

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Terms:

Our terms to firms of approved credit are: 60 days Net Acceptance, or per cent Discount for cash inside of 30 days from date of invoice; F. O. B. Growing Station. Bags at Market Value, not returnable.

Conditions of Sale:

We will continue to book contracts only as long as we have sufficient acre¬ age, under normal conditions, to pro¬ duce quantities sold. All sales subject to confirmation.

All Sales Made Subject to Customary Disclaimer of the Seed Trade

We give no warranty, express or im¬ plied, as to description, purity, pro¬ ductiveness or any other matter of any seeds we sell, and we will not be in any way responsible for them.

Besides varieties listed, we are prepared to grow from customers’ stock, and will give special attention to such orders.

Correspondence Solicited

Pieters-Wheeler Seed Co.

(Incorporated)

GILROY, CALIFORNIA

Cable Address : Codes : Am. Seed

Wheeler, Gilroy. A.B.C. — 5th Edition

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SEED GROWING CONTRACT

CROP 19^9

Pieters- Wheeler Seed Company

OF GILROY, CALIFORNIA

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