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This new tomato is the result of many years’ careful selection by one of the most successful-tomato growers of Atlantic 
County, New Jersey, who, to our certain knowledge, has for a few years past shipped to New York and Philadelphia markets, 
fine large tomatoes fully two weeks ahead of all competitors, being the first Northern fruit that has reached those markets. 
The vines grow strong, stiffand very rapidly, setting the crown fruit when quite young, the buds appearing before the plant is 
four inches high. The fruit is borne in immense 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. It is by far the most valuable market variety 
ever introduced, and is so pronounced by every gardener who has grown it the past two seasons. Pkt., 15c.; oz., 60c.; 14 lb., 
“” “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, 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. 
ITS HISTORY.—In the spring of 1887 a customer in Ohio sent us asmall 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 varieties we were testing, specimens when ripe weighing two to three pounds 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 given it was suggested by our friend, Thos. H. Brinton, of Chadd’s Ford, Pa., who has probably grown and tested more 
varieties of tomatoes than any other person in the United States, who wrote: ‘‘The more I see of the Tomato No. 45, the 
moreJ am pleased with it. It is certainly a magnificent, new, most valuable and distinct variety, and worthy of the name 
of ‘ Brandywine,’ after that most beautiful of all streams, which flows near our Quaker village.”’ 
With two such handsome varieties as 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., 15¢.; 0z., 60c.; 14 lb., $1.75; lb., $6.06. 
EARLY MARKET CKAMPION TOMATS. 
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 hasalways had extremely fine, large tomatoes in the 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, glossy, pinkish-purple, almost like wax, flesh 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 onetime. 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. Pkt., 10c.; 0z., 30c.; 441b., 80c.; 1b., $3.00. 
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