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IT HAS RECEIVED MORE ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE, AND HAS TAKEN MORE FIRST PREMIUMS, 
THAN ANY OTHER 6 VEGETABLES COMBINED. 
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A revelation to strangers. 
An invariable prize winner. 
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Often 18 inches around, 
five filling a peck. 
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EIGHT PONDEROU 
Often 2 to 4 pounds each. 
Fifty pounds to a plant. 
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HAPE UNIFORMLY PERFEC 
Smooth and beautiful, 
without wrinkle or fissure. 
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OLID AS BEEFSTEA 
Almost seedless. 
No watery cavities. 
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UALITY BEYOND PRAIS 
| Rich and meaty—sliced. 
Thick and delicious—canned. 
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RODIGIOUSLY PROLIFI 
Often a bushel to a plant, 
20 tons to an acre. 
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Unaffected by drought. 
Free from blight or rot. 
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First picking in 10 weeks, 
continuing until frost. 
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UCCEEDS EVERYWHER 
| From California to Maine, 
From Canada to Mexico. 
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Henderson's Ponderosa Tomato. 
E introduced this grand variety about ten years ago, 
WV making what some people considered extravagant 
claims for it; but our predictions and claims about 
its superior merits have been more than verified. 
It has had Ten Years of Gontinuous Success ! 
IKE ‘‘Old Glory,’ it is now planted in both hemispheres. 
There is no State in the Union, no civilized country on 
the globe where Henderson’s Ponderosa is not grown; 
and from everywhere it receives nothing but praise, enthusias- 
tic praise. Eulogistic letters regarding it are received by us in 
annually-increasing thousands, and our sales of Ponderosa 
seed last season were nearly double thoseof any previous year, 
thus convincingly proving that the marvelous success and 
popularity it has already achieved has not yet reached its 
zenith; and this is partly accounted for from the fact that 
Henderson’s Ponderosa Tomato 
1S BETTER AND BETTER EVERY YEAR! 
T is nowso highly bred, so free from seeds, that we only get 
ten pounds of seed from an acre, where formerly we har- 
vested twenty to thirty pounds, while ordinary tomatoes 
yield one hundred pounds or more of seed per acre; this fact 
alone shows that Henderson’s Ponderosa is almost all solid 
meat, and as nearly seedless as is possible to perpetuate it. 
Henderson’s Ponderosa Tomato 
S in every way splendid. It excels in magnificent size, often 
I attaining a circumference of 18 inches, often weighing two, 
three and four pounds each, perfect in form, free from 
wrinkles and fissures, as smooth as glass and as solid and 
meaty as beefsteak, free from watery cavities and almost seed- 
less; it ripens thoroughly from centre to skin, its glowing crim- 
son color permeating the flesh to the heart; it is free from rot; 
but above all, the delicious quality and flavor are its crowning 
merits—toothsome and rich when sliced, savory and delicious 
when canned, very little boiling being required for it to thicken. 
The plants of Henderson’s Ponderosa Tomato are 
luxuriant, healthy growers, independent of droughts, free from 
blight, and are prodigious early and continuous bearers. First 
ripe fruits are often picked in ten weeks from seed sowing, while 
late fruits may be gathered until frost. Some of our customers 
store the immature late fruits, which ripen and are served at 
Thanksgiving dinner. 
Henderson’s Ponderosa is not only the best family to- 
mato for the home garden, but it also fruits well under glass. 
In Scotland and England, where all tomatoes are grown in 
greenhouses, this gives high satisfaction, one of our customers 
there taking first prize over twenty-seven competitors with our 
F YOU HAD TIM 
—— AND —_ 
WE HAD SPAGE, 
Hundreds of letters similar to the 
following could be printed: 
“WZ” have planted the Ponderosa every sea- 
son since you brought it out, and we 
find there is no tomato that equals it. To 
cut up one weighing 1% to 2 Ibs. is like carv- 
ing a nice slice of steak, and then the flavor 
is so fine.’—S. 8S. ROCKWELL, Vermontville, 
Mich. 
‘7 WILL not attempt to praise Ponderosa, 
as I could find no language to express 
my high appreciation of this tomato. It is 
the one we grow to eat at Woodbine Farm— 
that’s all.’’-—CAMPBELL & WEST, Hartstown, 
Pa, 
“THE dear old Ponderosa! TI am still in 
love with it, and no wonder; for there 
is no tomato in the world like it.’’—FRrEp- 
ERICK RICHARDS, Orakii Basin, Auckland, New 
Zealand. 
“1A/HO can beat this? On the 8th of Jan- 
uary my wife has on the table sliced 
Ponderosa tomatoes which we grew in our 
garden last year. The fruit was pulled at 
frost and laid away in a hox to ripen.”’— 
Rev. R. 8S. Duncan, Montgomery City, Mo. 
oe EH have grown your Ponderosa tomato 
for several years and could not do with- 
out them. They ripen finely in this State.’’ 
—Mrs. A. R. Heilig, Tacoma, Wash. 
“I CANNOT retrain from speaking a word of 
praise of your Ponderosa tomato. With- 
out any special care.we had them weigh 4 lbs. 
20z. People came for miles to see them.” 
—WM. GAMMEL, Detroit, Mich. 
UG A MONG my Ponderosa tomatoes this year 
I have one 17 inches in circumference 
and pertectly smooth. For slicing I consider 
the Ponderosa unparalleled in the tomato 
family.”’—Rev. G. U. BALSLEY, West Liberty, 
W. Va. 
“I WANT to tell you how much I think of 
the Ponderosa. TI consider it the finest 
all-around tomato on earth. I have tried 
some other much-lauded tomato alongside 
of Ponderosa every year, and have now 
made up my mind not to raise anything 
but the Ponderosa.’’—S. M. BARTLETT, Ames- 
bury, Mass. 
“| HAVE had excellent success with Ponder- 
osa tomatoes since the first year the 
seed was put on the market. Have had any 
quantity of them ranging in weight from one 
to three pounds, one specimen reaching four 
pounds.’’—C, M. Boycer, Hornellsville, N. Y. 
“ HAVE raised the Ponderosa every year 
since you introduced it, and would use no 
other as long as I can get Ponderosa. I have 
taken first premiums the last five years at our 
County Fair.” —LinrorpD Marsu, Stroudsburg, 
Pa. 
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TOMATO SEED, 
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Every customer for Tomato Seed 
will receive, if asked for, our pam- 
phliet, ** TOMATO CULTURE,” and 
how to grow the big fellows. 
We desire to warn our customers 
“T have been disappointed in the Ponderosa 
)you. Please send me the true seed, and send as 
} NOTE.—This peerless variety is so well known and so much sought after that dealers 
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importance, as many inferior stocks of Tomato are being offered under th 
everywhere are offering the ‘‘Ponderosa Tomato.”’ 
against all such, unless the seed is bought from us direct and in our original packages. This is of vital 
Tomato the last two years. 
soon as you can.’’—ROBERT HARM, Denton, Texas. 
I got the seed from other parties, 
e name of ‘‘ Ponderosa.”’ 
and they are not like the ones I got from 
