NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES IN VEGETABLES 



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Sparks' Earliana Has Proven the Most Profitable Tomato Ever Grown 



Realized $200 on Less than One=half Acre 



E. E. Leh Bradford, FortWorth, Texas, August 2, 1902, writes: "I 

 sold |200 worth of tomatoes from less than one-half acre of your Sparks' 

 Karliana. It beats any tomato ever grown for this market in earliness and 

 |)iO(luctiveness. I will plant three acres 

 of them next season." 



Over $300 from 1500 Plants 



C. M. Emerory, Knoxville, Tenn., 

 Oct. 17, 1902, writes: "The i ounce 

 Sparks' Earliana Tomato Seed purchased 

 from you gave me 1500 plants from which 

 I made over $300. I have been growing 

 tomatoes for 18 years and have never 

 eeen its equal. Fine large tomatoes more 

 than three weeks ahead of all others 

 on the market. ' ' 



$750 on Less than Two Acres 



Mr. Joseph Stiles, a well-known trucker at 

 Pennsgrove, N. J., says : " I realized $750 on less 

 than two acres of your Sparks' Earliana Tomatoes." 



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3,000 on Sparks' Earliana 



$6,000 is Cleared by a Norfolk Trucker 



Mb. Nimrod C. Cromwell, one of the oldest and best 

 known truckers at Norfolk, Va., came up from Norfolk to 

 our store in Philadelphia to purchase some seed of the 

 Sparks' Earliana Tomato, and while there stated to us that 

 "his two sons, who are now running his farm for him, had cleared over 

 Tomatoes the past season." 



$725 Clear on 4, 000 Hills 



Mr. Q-ko. C. Sparks, the originator, says that "in the year 1899, when I first marketed the Earliana 

 Tomatoes, I realized from my first pickings $725, clear of freight and commission, on about 4,000 hills." 



What a Pew of the Largest Market Growers Say of Sparks' Earliana 



BEAT AI,l4 RECORDS BY SIX WEEKS 



Joseph A. Weis, North Adams, Mass., July 8, 1902, writes : 

 "Your Sparks' Earliana beat all records here by six weeks. 

 Many gardeners have not yet brought a ripe tomato to 

 market. People scarcely believe I raised mine so early ; 

 they think I had them shipped to me." 



BEST IN THIRTY YEARS' EXPERIENCE 



Wm. H. Kikby, Chestertown, Md., June 21, 1902, writes : 

 " Your Sparks' Earliana is the finest tomato I ever saw. It 

 is the earliest and most productive. In the past thirty years 

 I have tried many varieties of tomatoes, but this one beats 

 them all ; yesterday one of my men counted 176 tomatoes 

 on one plant." 



NO OTHER WELL BE GROWN 



Warben Webster, Port Monmouth, N. J., September 9, 

 1902, writes: "I was the first to introduce in this neighbor- 

 hood, in 1901, your Sparks' Earliana Tomato ; next Summer 

 there will be no early tomato but Earliana here, for its merits 

 are now known to all. They are large, good shippers, good 

 sellers, enormous croppers, and earlier than any tomato we 

 have ever seen." 



AIX. THAT COULD BE WISHED FOR 



Geo. H. Gill, Little Neck, L. I,, November 1, 1902, writes : 

 " I had 7,5ro hills of your Sparks' Earliana and they were by 

 far the earliest and best I ever raised. In size, earliness, and 

 productiveness they are all anyone could wish." 



MOST VALUABLE NOVELTY IN A CENTURY 



John W. Millett, Bismarck, N. Dakota, writes : " I con- 

 gratulate you on having introduced the most valuable tomato 

 novelty of the past century, which Sparks' Earliana surely is. 

 It is earlier than all other varieties ever brought forward; it 

 produces three times the amount of fruit of any variety I 

 ever grew. This superb tomato not only equals but far sur- 

 passes all you claim for it." 



EARLIEST AND BEST OF 100 VARIETIES 



Alfred Palmer, Salem, N. C, July 6, 1902, writes : 

 " After forty years' experience in tomato raising I must say 

 that of over 100 varieties I have tried, I found your Sparks' 

 Earliana to be the very earliest and best in every way. Its 

 quality and merits are perfection." 



TVITHSTOOD WET WHEN OTHERS ROTTED 



C.W. Macmillan, Savannah, Ga., January 28, 1902, writes : 

 "I found your Sparks' Earliana everything you claim for 

 them ; not only were they heavy bearers and at least ten days 

 earlier than any other varieties planted at same time, but 

 they withstood an exceedingly wet season without damage, 

 whilst other kinds rotted badly." 



HEAVY CROP WHEN OTHERS FAILED 



Geo. Wolpbum, Jr., Kresson, N. J , October 2, 1902, writes : 

 "I have grown your Spa-ks' Earliana Tomato since its intro- 

 duction, and find it the very earliest and best. Last year I 

 had a heavy crop of them while my neighbors had hardly 

 any from other varieties." 



RIPE TOMATOES IN JUNE IN MARYLAND 



Maby Magkuder, Olney, Md., August 9, 190B, writes : 

 " People around here are delighted to have tomatoes in June 

 of so fine a quality as Sparks' Earliana ; the earliest this year 

 were gathered June 21." 



EARLIEST AND HEAVIEST CROPPER 



Hallock Johssom, Villa Ridge, 111., October 15, 1902, 

 writes: "The Earliana is of good size and of the very best 

 quality. It is the earliest of all early tomatoes, and the heavi- 

 est cropper I have ever seen grown." 



AVERAGED 150 PER PLANT 



J. T. JoLLEY, Boles, 111 , September 19. 1902, writes : ' ' Your 

 Sparks' Earliana Tomatoes got away beyond all you claim for 

 thera ; they bore for me 150 to the plant on an average. A 

 perfect wonder in earliness." 



Sparks' Earliana is as near seedless as any tomato we ever saw, containing less than one-fourth 

 the seed of other varieties, and for this reason the genuine seed can never be sold at a low price. 

 We control the entire supply of seed grown direct from the originator's selected stock seed. Owing to 

 the very short crop, we are unable to offer the send in larger quantities than ^ lb. in 1903. Prices, gen- 

 uine seed : Per pkt , 20c.; oz., $1.00 ; i lb. for $3.50. 



