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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) .

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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 .

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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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