""John Baer" Tomato 



The Eariiest and Best Tomato on Earth — Shipping Fruit in 30 Days 



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



Shipping Tomatoes in Thirty Days from Large, Strong, Well-Matured 



Plants Grown in Veneer Bands with Roots Undisturbed 



Prices: 



Pkts. 10c and 25c. 1/4 Oz. 50c. 1/2 Oz. 90c. 1 Oz. $1.50. 2 Ozs. $2.50. 1/4 Lb. $4.50. 

 1/2 Lb. $8.00. 1 Lb, $15.00. Postpaid. We Offer Veneer Bands 50c Per 100. 



Quality 



Earliest and best in 28 varieties; brilliant deep red color; smoothest; no 

 core; almost free from seed; delicious flaonred; far more solid and meaty than 

 any other; no culls; ripens even up to the stem; perfect beauties; uniform in 

 size and ripening; picks tiro to one to any other variety; from i05 to i?2 perfect 

 fruit to the vine; a perfect shipper; blight proof. 



Earliness 



Ten days earlier than Earliana in Canada; the earliest Tomato in New 

 Jersey; 10 days earlier than Globe in Florida; planted six weeks later but 

 come first in Texas; 3 Greeks ahead of any in Virginia; 3 weeks ahead of any 

 in New York; 3 weeks ahead of any in Washington; 2 weeks ahead of any in 

 Maryland; set out May 30, picked ripe fruit June 17, in New York, 



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 undisturbe<i. 



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

 toes ever grown, entirely free from c(jre. 



3rd — "John Baer" Tomato produces an enormous crop of Tomatoes, 50 

 to 100 fruit 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. 



0th — "John Baer" Tomato has just enough foliage — will stand plenty of 

 manuring without going to vine. Set plants 3x3^2 feet. 



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

 grown — 24 fruit exactly £11 a six-carrier basket. 



11th — Each beautiful *'John Baer" Tomato weighs about 6^2 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, quidity, shape, fruit, color and shipi»ing 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 timeof any other Tomato. A large 

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

 could secure packed separately, running them through a special 

 process for his fanciest trade and his own private use. 



JOHN BAER 



Wholesale Market Gardener and Florist. 



Baltimore County, Md., January 1, 1918. 



A WORD OF CAUTION 



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 Baku. 



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