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RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
NOVELTIES FOR 1888, 
AND SOME VARIETIES OF SEED OF SPECIAL MERIT. 
Hing of the Eariiest Tomaioes. 
When in New Jersey the past season, I 
found this variety with one of the most 
prominent truck farmers and _ seed 
srowers. Its appearance was so strik- 
ing, that Isecured a quantity of the seed, 
the product of the first gathered fruits. 
It is perhaps not quite so early as the 
Extra Early Dwarf, but very much 
superior to it otherwise. 
It grows to a medium sized stout and 
branching vine; upright in growth, until 
The buds 
Blossoms, as a rule, 
weighed down with fruit. 
appear very soon. 
adhere and produce fruit, setting in 
clusters of 10—12 tomatoes which not un- 
frequently ripen within ten days of each 
other, while the entire crop has often 
been picked within a period of thirty 
days from ‘first ripening. “The leaves 
are rather curled, with large and deep™ 
cuts, giving the plant the appearance as 
suffering from drought, which is not 
the case. It is enormously productive, 
bright red in color and of a good size: 
quite solid. It is the earliest tomato 
amongst the large kinds; which fact has 
been proven by aten years’ test with all 
A®iLixc 
King of the Earliest Tomatoes. 
