NOVELTIES .-. OF .-. STERLING .'. MERIT .-. 



THE BRAMDYWINE or No. 45 TOMATO 



See also Colored Illustration painted from Nature on the Back of this Book. 



otiiing 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 hun- 

 dreds of unsolicited testimonials from customers who tried it, only a very few of which we have room 

 to publish below. 



ITS HISTORY. — 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 varieties we were testing, 

 specimens when ripe weighing three to three and one-quarter pounds each, as smooth as an apple and re- 

 markably 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 September 25, 1888 : "The more I see of the Tomato No. 45, the more I 

 am pleased with it. It is certainly a magnificent, new, most valuable and distinct varietj', 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 Brandy wine for late, no gar- 

 den could fail to give a bountiful supply of delicious tomatoes the entire season. Prices for 1890 : 

 Pkt., 20c.; 3 pkts., 50c.; 7 pkts., $1.00. 



WHAT THET SflT OF BRflMbTWINE flNb /ITLflNTlC PRIZE. 



AHE.VD or AXY EVER SEEN. 



Miranda Perkins, Excelsior Springs, Clay Co., Mo., 

 Sept. 16, 1889, writes: "I .ira very greatly pleased with the 

 seed purchased of you. The Brandy wine and Atlantic Prize 

 Tomatoes are far ahead of any I have ever seen, the Atlantic 

 Prize coming early and the Brandywine late. Short Stem 

 Drumhead and Market Gardeners' Cabbage No. 2 are ahead 

 of all ill this section, while your Andalusia Bean beats the 

 world." 



TWO TVEEKS EARLIER THAN DWARF 

 CHAMPION. 



Wm. Miller, Perry grille, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1889, writes: 

 " The Atlantic Prize Tomato proved to be two weeks earlier 

 than the Dwarf Champion, grown under precisely the same 

 conditions. I have no doubt it will become the standard for 

 a large, smooth e.xtra early tomato. I venture to predict that 

 in the next twenty years you will not produce three such 

 vesetables as Atlantic Prize Tomato, J. & S. Market Garden- 

 ers' No. 2 and New Diamond Winter Cabbages." 



FAR SURPASSES EVERY OTHER KIND. 



R. S. Geise, Klingerslown, Pa., w^riles : " The new tomato 

 (Brandywine) turned out the finest I ever saw ; they have 

 produced the largest and finest tomatoes ever grown in this 

 section, far surpassing every other kind in size, flavor and 

 productiveness; they are of a very large size, weighing from 

 2K to 3J4 pounds." 



EARLIEST YET INTRODUCED. 



Wm. Miller, Perryville, N. Y., writes: "In your new 

 Atlantic Prize you have the earliest tomato yet introduced, 

 mine are now^ in full blossom. None of my other twenty va- 

 rieties, which include the King of the Earliest and Dwarf 

 Champion, have j'et budded. Market Gardeners' No. 2 

 Cabbage is now a sight to see." 



PERFECTION HAS BEEN REACHED. 



L. Claprodd, Herring, O., Oct. 16, 1889, writes: "The 

 Brandywine Tomato is par e-xoellence the finest, largest, 

 heaviest and best yielder 1 ever saw; not a rough or misshapen 

 one on l.iO vines of them, Perfection has been reached in the 

 Brandywine," 



