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John Baer" Tomato Always Brings More Than Market Prices 



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"John Baer" Tomato 



The Best Extremely Early Tomato on Earth — Shipping Fruit in 30 Days 



"John Baer" Tomato Produces Perfect, Solid, High-Crown, Beautiful, Brilliant Red Shipping Tomatoes 

 in 30 Days from Large, Strong, Well-Matured Plants Grown in Veneer Bands with Roots Undisturbed 



Prices: Pkts. 10c. V 4 Oz. 

 1 Lb. $10.00. 



Quality 



25c. 1 Oz. 75c. 2 Ozs. $1.45. Vi Lb. $2.75. 

 Postpaid. We Offer Veneer Bands 50c Per 100. 



Earliest and most prolific yielder. Bears right up until frost. Just the 

 right foliage. Blight proof. A perfect shipper. Almost free from seed. 

 Uniform both in size and ripening. Beautiful deep red color. Handsome, 

 Smooth. Solid and meaty. No culls. Ripens even right up to the stem. 

 The most delicious tomato you have ever lasted. When sliced on the table 

 looks exceedingly rich. 



Earliness 



Ten days earlier than the Globe in Florida. Planted six weeks later 

 but come first in Texas. Three weeks ahead of any in Virginia. Two weeks 

 ahead of any in Maryland. The earliest tomato in New Jersey. Six weeks 

 ahead of any in New York. Ten days earlier than Earliana in Canada. 

 Wherever planted has proven itself to be by far the earliest tomato ever planted. 



Good Qualities of the "John Baer" Tomato 



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1st — "John Baer" Tomato produces large, beautiful, solid shipping Toma- 

 toes in 30 days from large, strong, well-matured plants grown in 

 Veneer or Paper bands, with roots undisturbed. 



2nd — "John Baer" Tomato produces the most perfect High Crown Toma- 

 toes ever grown, entirely free from core. 



3rd — "John Baer" Tomato produces an enormous crop of Tomatoes, 100 

 fruit and over to each plant. 



4th — Every "John Baer" Tomato ripens evenly, right up to the stem. 



5th — No cripples, no scalds, no blight, no cracked, no wrinkled, no one- 

 sided, uneven, scarred fruit. When dead ripe "John Baer" Tomato 

 will not burst. 



6th — "John Baer" Tomato has a wonderful glistening, brilliant, bright 

 red color. 



7th — "John Baer" Tomato has a mild, deliciously sweet flavor. The finest 

 flavor you have ever tasted. 



8th — "John Baer" Tomato is almost seedless; it requires 6 to 8 bushels of 

 "John Baer" Tomatoes to make one pound of seed, a marvelous 

 Stem Setter, often ten fruit in first cluster, solid and meaty. 



9th — "John Baer" Tomato has just enough foliage — will stand plenty of 

 manuring without going to vine. Set plants 3 x 3}4 feet. 



10th — "John Baer" Tomato is the most perfect shipping Tomato ever 

 grown- — 24 fruit exactly fill a six-carrier basket. 



11th — Each beautiful "John Baer" Tomato weighs about 6J4 ounces. 



12th — "John Baer" Tomato Seed was saved only by John Baer, the origi- 

 nator, who personally selected and picked every Tomato from which 

 he saved this seed, selecting only the most beautiful, perfect fruit of 

 the Early Stem Set Clusters. 



13th — "John Baer" Tomato is the offspring of two marvelous Tomatoes — 

 One Great Specialist having devoted 10 years in selecting and im- 

 proving one parent and Another Expert devoted five years in selecting 

 and improving the other parent. The "John Baer" Tomato is, 

 therefore, the result of Fifteen Generations of Improvement and Selec- 

 tion for earliness, quality, shape, fruit, color and shipping quality. 



14th — -As a Packing Tomato, "John Baer" is a miracle — they all pack 

 Fancy, no seconds, and all pack whole. Peelers can prepare three 

 bushels "John Baer" Tomatoes to one bushel of any other Tomato. 

 Being such a tremendous yielder a bushel of "John Baer" Tomatoes 

 can be gathered in one-third the time of any other Tomato. A large 

 Baltimore Tomato Packer has all the "John Baer" Tomatoes he 

 can secure packed separately, running them through a special 

 process for his fanciest trade and his own private use. 



IMPORTANT NOTICE— BEWARE OF IMITATIONS 



JOHN BAER 



Wholesale Market Gardener and Florist 



Baltimore County, Md., January 1, 1918. 



To My Friends, Fellow Market Gardeners, Canners and the 

 Public in General: 



The wonderful successes produced from "John Baer" Tomato Seed 

 has caused seed to be sold under this name that is not of my production. 

 In many cases this seed has produced very inferior crops and in no case 

 has it been worthy of the name. 



I therefore wish to inform my friends — the Market Gardeners, Canners 

 and the Public in General — I have placed my entire 1918 supply of "John 

 Baer" Tomato Seed, which I personally grew and selected, with J. Bol- 

 giano & Son, of Baltimore, Md. Any seed offered by any other source is 

 not my production and I cannot feel morally responsible for the results 

 it may produce. 



I have given this Tomato my greatest care and attention for many 

 years and I take pride in seeing that my fellow market gardeners are 

 getting only seed that represents the results of my lifework. 



(Signed) John Baer. 



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