



-"John Baer" Tomato 



The Earliest 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, 25c and 50c. 



Quality 



1 Oz. $1.00. 2 Ozs. $1.50. 1/4 Lb. $2.75. 

 We Offer Veneer Bands 50c Per 100. 



1/2 Lb. $5.00. 1 Lb. $10.00. 

 Earliness 



Earliest and best in 58 varieties; brilliant deep red color; smoothest; no 

 core; almost free from seed; delicious flavored; far more solid and mealy than 

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

 size and ripening; picks two to one to any other variety; from 105 to 122 perfect 

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



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

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

 come first in Texas; 3 weeks 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 



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, 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. 



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

 manuring without going to vine. Set plants 3 x 314 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 63-^ 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 ship[)ing quality. 



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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 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— HIMSELF 



GIVES A FRIENDLY BUT EARNEST NOTICE TO HIS FRIENDS 

 AND FELLOW MARKET GARDENERS 



Baltimore County, Md., January 1, 1917. 



I hereby inform my many friends, the Market Geu^deners, 

 Canners and the public in general, I have placed my entire 

 1917 supply of "John Baer" Tomato Seed, which I person- 

 ally grew and selected, with J. Bolgiano & Son, of Baltimore, 

 Md. Any seed offered by any other source is not my pro- 

 duction, and I cannot feel morally responsible for the results 

 it may produce. 



I have given this Tomato my greatest care and atten- 

 tion for many years, and take pride in seeing that my Fellow 

 Market Gardeners are getting only seed that truly represents 

 the results of my lifework. 



(Signed) JOHN BAER. 



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