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KTL-KNTIC RRIZe. 



THE VERY EARLIEST 

 OF ALL TOMATOES. 



This new tomato is the result of many years' careful selection by one of the most successful tomato growers of Altautic 

 County. New Jersey, who, to our certain knowledge, has for a few years past shipped to New York and Pliiladelphia markets, 

 fine large tomatoes fully two weeks ahead of all competitors, being the first Northern fruit that has reached iIkjsc markets. 

 The vines grow strong, stiffand very rapidly, setting the crown fruit when quite young, the buds appearing before the yilant is 

 four inches high. The fruit is borne in imtnense clusters. Each vine producing" from sixty to eighty large, perfect fruits, very 

 solid and of the finest quality, being unusually free from core and seeds. Another great feature, besides extreme earliness, 

 about this wonderful tomato, and one which must prove of great advantage to all tomato growers, and market gardeners is 

 that when first fruiting it ripens more evenly and abundantly than any other tomato grown. See testimonials, page 9, John- 

 son & Stokes' Garden and Farm Maaual for 1890. Pkt", 15c.; oz., 60c.; }^ lb., $2.00 ; lb., S7.00. 



THE BRANDYWINE OR No. 45 TOMATO. 



Nothing we have ever introduced has excited so much comment in so short a time as this magnificent tomato. Although 

 offered in packets only, and last spring for the first time, it has brought us in hundreds of unsolicited testimonials from 

 customers who all agree in pronouncing it the largest, most productive and attractive in both color and form. For colored 

 illustrations and testimonials see our G.^kden and Farm Manual for 1890. 



ITS mSTOKY. — In the spring of 1887 a customer in Ohio sent us a small package of tomato seed, requesting us to give it 

 a fair test on our trial grounds. A few plants were set out along with forty-five other varieties we were testing, both new and 

 old ; this being the last on the list was numbered 45. To our astonishment, it completely eclipsed in great size and beauty all 

 other yarities we were testing, specimens when ripe weighing three to three and one-quarter poundit each, as smooth as an apple 

 and remarkably solid. To still further test this tomato, we sent a few packets to tomato specialists, requesting them to report 

 on its merits. The name giveit it was suggested by our friend, Thos. H. Brinton, of Chadd's Ford, Pa., who has pn ibably grown 

 and tested more varieties of tomatoes than any other person in the United States, who wrote September 25, 1888 : 

 " The more I see of the Tomato No 45, the more I ain pleased with it. It is certainly a magnificent, new. most valuable and 

 distinct variety, and worthy of the name of ' Brandywine' , 3.fi&i: that most beautiful of all streams, which flows near our 

 Quaker village." 



With two such handsome varieties «.s the Atlantic Prize for early, and the Brandywine for late no market or private gardener 

 could fail to give a bountiful supply of delicious tomatoes the entire season. Pkt., 15c.: oz., 51.00 : 4 oz., $3.00. 



EflRLT nflRKET QHflnFION TOnflTO. 



This valuable tomato originated with a prominent Philadelphia market gardener, who has for many years made the selec- 

 tion and improvement of the tomato a specialty. He has always had extremely fine, lar»e tomatoes in market very early and 

 realizing handsome prices for his crop. His aim has always been to combine earliness with large size and perfect, smooth 

 shape, and that he has succeeded in a most wonderful degree is evidenced in the Market Champion. The fruit is of a 

 bright, glos.sy, pinkish purple, almost like wax. ttesh is very hard and solid, keeping a long time after ripe without getting 

 soft or rotting. Its shape is most perfect, being smooth and uniform in size, ripening all over at one time. It is a vigorous 

 grower the foliage being quite distinct. There is no other purple tomato cultivated that will ripen so early or produce 

 more bushels of large, handsome fruit to the acre than the Market Champion. Oz. 25c.: % ^^- ''Oc.: lb , $2.50. 



