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The PONDEROSA possesses every good quality to be found in a 
tomato. The vines are strong and vigorous and easily carry their 
enormous weight of fruit. Its massive, ponderous fruits are al- 
most perfect in form, and so free from ridges or corrugations as 
to seem nearly as smooth as glass; and when we come to size, 
weight and solidity, no other tomato begins to approach it. 
The skin is exceedingly firm, which will cause it to be largely 
grown for shipping purposes. The color, a rich crimson, per- 
meates the fruit from circumference to centre, so that when 
sliced for the table its rare beauty never fails to elicit general 
admiration. Its remarkable solidity is happily expressed in 
one of our testimonials, which says ‘‘that itis nearly as firm 
as an apple.”’. A marked peculiarity of this variety is that it 
is almost seedless, and while this characteristic commends 
its use to delicate persons, this Same peculiarity makes us pay 
five times as much to have the seed grown as that of any 
other sort. Large fruits or vegetables are usually obtained 
at the expense of earliness, but here the PONDEROSA again 
steps in and floors our preconceived ideas on this point by 
demonstrating that it is as early as most of the older sorts whose 
only merit is that they are early. One patron writes that he had 
splendid tomatoes of the PONDEROSA in 96 days from sowing the 
seed. Its flavoris delicious, whether used raw or cooked. A canner 
who grew it last year says it is going to bea grand sort for him. (See cut.) 
PRICE, 10c. pkt., 60c. 0z., $2.00 14 Ib. 
‘*T have been disappointed in the Ponderosa Tomato the last two years. I got the seed 
from other parties, and they are not like the ones I got from you. Please send me the true 
seed, and send as soon as you can.” ) 
The Grandest 
Tomato 
Grown ! 
Henderson’s Ponderosa Tomato. 
““We have raised the Ponderosa Tomato for several years and consider 
it the finest Tomato ever raised. We have taken first premiums at the 
county fairs each year. The largest Tomato raised by us weighed over 3 Ibs.” 
Mrs. M. H. GILBERT, New London, Wis. 
** Ponderosa takes well to our climate. For size, solidity, favor and general 
excellence nothing has ever been able to come near it in these colonies.” 
Rey. J. BONGERS, Campbelltown, New South Wales. 
“ Henderson’s Ponderosa Tomato is a splendid acquisition; hard to beat.” 
E. G. KINSELL, Green Spring Furnace, Md. 
“T used the Ponderosa Tomato last season and found it to excel anything in 
the market. Ponderosa Tomato sells first in market.” 
J.B. Smita, Atlanta, Ga. 
“M. M.Munerr, Secretary Fruit Growers’ Association, brought in a basket of 
Tomatoes Monday morning, ten of which weighed 13 pounds. They were of the 
Ponderosa and Crimson Cushion varieties. He obtained the seed from Peter 
Henderson & Co. of New York. He informs us that not a drop of irrigation 
has beer given the vines and no particular care has been taken. He raised 
some tomatoes that weighed over two pounds.” Eureka Springs, Ark. 
“We have planted your Ponderosa Tomato for two years and find it to be 
the best yielding and the finest Tomato we ever used, as well as the best 
keeping when canned, and find your seeds are all that they are recom- 
mended.”’ Lucy ELLER, Auxvasse, Mo. 
“T haveraised the Ponderosa for the last three seasons and have 
had splendid success withthem. Ithink they are farsuperior 
to any other, bothas to size and quality. Ihaveraised 
some of the finest I eversaw. I\raise different kinds 
each year, but none that compare to the 
Ponderosa.”’ 
F. D. Swan, 
Pelham, N. C. 
RosBerT Harm, Denton, Texas. 
