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730 Fordhook Hybrid Tomato 



Every seed from a hand pollinated fruit (60 days) 



Another first ! This is the first chance you ever had to buy 

 first generation hand pollinated hybrid tomato seed. If you're 

 acquainted with hybrids at all you'll know at a glance that this 

 is exactly what you've been waiting for. 



The magic vigor of hybrid corn is now well known, and 

 year by year new classes of vegetables will be advanced to this 

 superior classification. The process begins by inbreeding out- 

 standing single plants from unrelated standard varieties, and 

 when they are fully stable and selected for the most favorable 

 characteristics they are crossed in many combinations until the 

 finest hybrids are chosen for production. This hybrid seed is made 

 by hand pollination of every fruit, painstakingly crossing each 

 one in a much more difficult and expensive manner than in the 

 production of hybrid seed corn. Tomatoes are normally self 

 pollinated, so each flower has to be emasculated first, then fer- 

 tilized with pollen from the sire plant, and finally, protected from all 

 insects which might accidentally fertilize the mutilated blossom. 



This Fordhook Hybrid is notable for two reasons. It 

 is very early, and yet it yields more fruits than any standard 

 variety on the market, regardless of maturity. The combination 

 of earliness and high yield is particularly desirable for southern 

 growers who have been barred from using early varieties because 

 of their susceptibility to fusarium wilt. Fordhook Hybrid is re- 

 sistant to that disease, yet it is in season with Earliana, the most 

 widely known early variety. 



In spite of its earliness this new hybrid certainly does not 

 have the flaw of insufficient foliage so common in early types. It 

 has luxuriant, dense growth, standing about 2 ft. high and spread- 

 ing as much as 5 ft. at full size. The fruits are thoroughly pro- 

 tected from sun scald. They are globular (never flat like Earli- 

 ana), with excellent red color all over the fruit, and a good 

 interior. They surpass all other early varieties in flavor. The size 

 is medium, with most fruits weighing about 5 oz., although they 

 are larger if the plants are staked up. Their uniformity is phe- 

 nomenal, and their smoothness most gratifying. 



Pkt. (containing 30 seeds) 25c 



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18 Tender Pod Bean 322 Great Lakes Lettuce 196 Silver Cross Bantam 



The very finest bean you can grow (48 days) Surest heading strain; resists tipburn (90 days) A midseason white hybrid sweet corn (86 days) 



A It would look very silly indeed if 

 •<s~ ~7^ we just repeated the headline over 

 7/sC and over until it filled this corner 

 of the page, but it might serve to 

 accomplish a purpose. Let's try it a couple 

 of times, anyway. The very finest bean you 

 can grow. Tlie very finest bean you can grow. 

 There. You've read it three times for em- 

 phasis, and you can be pretty sure by now 

 that we weren't just being careless with 

 our superlatives. 



If you have a favorite bean variety 

 you can't abandon without a struggle, at 

 least give Tender Pod a chance for com- 

 parison in your garden. Its prolific bush 

 plant, its supreme tenderness and succu- 

 lence, its long period of usefulness, and its 

 quality as a green canned bean make it ab- 

 solutely tops. The only complaint we've 

 received about Tender Pod is that we 

 haven't had enough seed. We hope we've 

 laid that one to rest this year by our heavy 

 production program. There's a complete 

 description and a photograph on page 4, 

 and inside the front cover there's another 

 photograph in full color. 



Pkt. 15*!; V 2 lb. 30«!; lb. 50«!; 2 lbs. 95<<; 



5 lbs. $2.25; 10 lbs. $4.25. 



2 Larger quantities at still lower prices. 



A This fine, new head lettuce was 

 \-' *— 7 developed at the Michigan Agri- 

 jy~A cultural Experiment Station. It 

 ^ ^ surpasses all other varieties in its 

 ability to make good heads in warm 

 weather, being even more reliable than 

 Imperial 44. The plants are large, vigorous, 

 grass green, and most attractive. The heads 

 are unusually solid, and they have the fine 

 characteristic of holding for a considerable 

 period if they are not cut at once. 



Great Lakes greatly increases the 

 percentage of useful heads in areas where 

 head lettuce is regularly grown, and it 

 makes it possible to have satisfactory crops 

 in many parts of the country where head 

 lettuce has been a failure because of exces- 

 sive heat. Since tipburn is the largest single 

 factor in destroying head lettuce, the re- 

 sistance to heat (which causes tipburn and 

 the subsequent slimy deterioration) is of 

 very great value. Here at Philadelphia we 

 have never seen a head of Great Lakes in- 

 jured by tipburn, even in abnormally late 

 plantings, while other varieties were a total 

 loss because of it. Great Lakes bolts to 

 seed slower than any other head lettuce. 



Pkt. 15«!; oz. $1.00; Vi lb. $3.00. 



A You don't have to take our word 

 -vT^ "7" for it any more. For 3 years we've 

 ly^A been telling people that Silver 

 ^ ^ Cross Bantam was the best sweet 

 corn they could grow, and many thousands 

 took our advice. We're still of the same 

 opinion, but the chorus of approval has just 

 about drowned us out. 



You should see the critical letters we 

 receive from enthusiasts who chide us for 

 not being strong enough in our statements. 

 Well, there's a limit to everything. When 

 we've exhausted our vocabulary of superla- 

 tives all we can do then is point to the corn 

 itself. Look at it. Taste it. Then describe 

 your pleasure, if you can. 



Here are the unemotional facts about 

 the corn. It grows about 6 ft. tall, with 

 sturdy, wind, heat, and drouth resistant 

 plants. The ears are 7>^ to 8 in. long, with 

 12 or 14 rows of white kernels. Many plants 

 carry two ears, and all are well protected 

 by a tight husk. The yield is high, and the 

 tenderness and quality plainly supreme. 

 There's a photograph inside the front cover 

 and more description on page 16. 



Pkt. 15^; l/ 2 lb. 40<<; lb. 75£; 2 lbs. $1.40; 



5 lbs. $3.20; 10 lbs. $6.00. 



Larger quantities at still lower prices. 



