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MANSFIELD TREE TOMATO. 



* MM Tree Tomato • 



1 cannot do better in describing this variety than to 

 quote as follows from a letter written by Mr. Mans- 

 field, the originator : " I -will state facts, and nothing 

 but facts. The Mansfield Tree Tomato has been 

 originated by me after eighteen years of careful 

 selections and special methods of cultivation, until 

 it has attained the height of 10 feet and 7 inches for 

 the tree, and a weight for a single Tomato of 34 ounces, 

 and a diameter of 6 inches, with testimonials of over 

 60 pounds of ripe fruit to a single tree, of a quality 

 that surpasses all others. Fruit ripens from July 4th 

 until frost. I have one tree laid by for a sample, to 

 show you or any of your customers, which measures 

 10 feet and 7 inches, and can show testimonials to 

 back all my statements, and you can stake any money 

 on them on my account, and come on for the vouchers. 

 I had my first ripe Tomato July 4th, and a fine one it 

 was. My best trees, July 25th, stood 7 feet high, and I 

 had Tomatoes on them that were five inches in 

 diameter at that time and still growing. They were 

 then all liberally loaded with fruit from the blossom 

 up to five inches, and run up as high as seventeen on 

 one stem, and always of superior quality. They are 

 as solid all the way through as a hard bpiled egg, and 

 but very few seeds in a Tomato. There are several 

 other Tomatoes that have been called " Tree Tomato," 

 but have all proven to be poor, worthless and sour 

 Tomatoes ; but the Mansfield Tree Tomato has proved 

 to be all that is claimed for it, and sends back to me 

 from sample seed sent out, most wonderful accounts 

 from Dakota to Vermont, and from the Lakes to 

 Florida and California." It is very similar to Hen- 

 derson's Ponderosa. Pkt., 10 cents ; oz., 40 cents. 



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