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2 ... Dorr's Iowa Seed Manual.

To My Customers:
In again handing you my list of seeds for another season, it is fitting that I should extend my thanks for the greatly increased orders which have been received during this year, which is just closing.

I trust our seeds have been found satisfactory, and that I shall continue to merit your increased patronage. Again thanking you, one and all, I wish you a Happy New Year.
C. W. DORR. Seed Grower.
Des Moines, Iowa.

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Vegetable Seeds.
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All vegetable seeds are sent by mail or express to any address, charges prepaid through by us, at prices named, except Peas, Beans, and Corn in larger quantities than packets, which are sent by express or freight at the expense of the purchaser, unless 25 cents per quart, for Beans and Peas, and 20 cents for Corn, is added to prepay postage.

Discounts—All five cent packets, 50 cents per full dozen. All 10 cent packets 1.00 per full dozen. On all orders for vegetable seeds (except packets at the dozen rate) amounting to $5.00 and not exceeding $10.00, 5 per cent. On orders amounting to $10.00 and not exceeding $25.00, 10 per cent. Write for special discounts on larger orders than $25.00, sending list of seeds wanted.

Collections of Vegetable Seeds,.

If you have a garden and do not know just which varieties to select, and will send us the amount of money you wish to spend, we will make the best selections for your locality, and guarantee a liberal quantity of seeds.

The Very Best Offer of the Season.

The Homestead one year for a premium.

Dorr's "Homestead Premium Seed Package" For 1882.

The most popular, liberal and best. A year's supply of the choicest seeds for the vegetable garden, containing many of the most popular and valuable novelties of the season, at a nominal cost. To give new customeas [customers] an idea of the superior quality of Dorr's Iowa Seeds I have arranged this most liberal Premium Package, which contains a packet of each of the following desirablev [desirable] arieties [varieties] of vegetable seeds: Colossal Asparagus, New Gol aen [Golden?] Wax Beans, Dewing's Blood Turnip Beet, Long Orange Carrot, Early Winning[staddt?], and Excelsior Large Flat Dutch Cabbage, New Half Dwarf Celery, Extra Early Des Moines, and New Egyptian Sweet Corn, Boston Market Cucumber, Prize Head Lettuce, Cuban Queen and Excelsior Watermelon, Bay View Muskmelon, White English Mustard, Long Sugar Parsnip, Little Gem Pea, Long Scarlet Radish, Silver Skin Onion, Savoy Spinach, Little Cocoanut and Boston Marrow Squash, Livingston's Perfection Tomato, White Egg Turnip, (two dozen). For $2.00 I will send, post-paid, all the above seeds, The Iowa Homestead for one year, the best agricultural weekly in the West, which will tell you all about Iowa and the Northwest, and a copy of the valuable Farm, Garden and Household Manual. This Manual is more complete and valuable than many sold for $5.00, and is published and offered only as a premium to new subscribers for the Homestead. It is worth more than the price of the entire package. All the above for only $2.00. Send at once to

C. W. Dorr, Seed Grower, Des Moines, Iowa.

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Iowa State Agricultural College,
Office of Professor of Horticulture and Forestry,
Ames, Iowa Dec. 7.

C. W. Dorr:

My Dear Sir:

The seeds we got of you all grew well, and proved true to name without a single exception.
Yours with Respect,
J. L. Budd.