JOHNSON .■.&.-. STOKES .-. PHILADELPHIA 



flTlifl^TIC PJ^IZE. 



THE VERY E/iRLIE5T OF ALL 

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In placing this new tomato before our 

 friends, we do so with the fullest assurance 

 that it is the most valuable early market 

 VARIETY • EVER INTRODUCED, and is SO pro- 

 nounced by every gardener who has given it a 

 trial. It 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, 

 and selling at from three to four dollars per 

 basket. His first shipment in 1889 reached 

 Philadelphia June nth, having been picked 

 the day previous, while such varieties as Para- 

 gon, Acme, Favorite and Perfection did not 

 begin to arrive from the same section until the 

 third week of July, selling then at seventy- 

 five cents per basket. The vines grow strong, 

 stiff and 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, ver}- 

 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 perfect in color and form, 

 and is sure to come out ahead of all other early 

 tomatoes. Pkt., 20c.; oz., 75c.; }{ \h., I2.50; 

 lb., $8.00, post-paid. 



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Perhaps no greater improvement in dwarfs 

 beans has ever been accomplished than in this 

 variety. It originated in Jefferson Count}-, N. Y , 

 with one of our largest bean growers, and, as its 

 name implies, is a complete union of all good / 

 qualities necessary to make a dwarf green-pod 

 bean perfect. It is much earlier and of a dwarfer 

 habit than the old White Valentine, the pods 

 being rounder, smoother, plumper and more 

 meaty and entirely stringless. Among many 

 others it possesses the peculiar and valuable qual- 

 ity of remaining in a tender cooking condition 

 longer than any other green-podded variety ; this, 

 together with its extrems earliness — being fit to 

 pick in thirty days from time of germination — 

 makes it an exceedingly valuable sort for spring 

 or fall planting. The beans, when ripe, are pure 

 white, thus enabling the grower to sell them 

 as shelled beans at a profitable figure in case he 

 cannot sell them in the green state. We do not 

 hesitate to recommend this new sort as unequalled 

 in our entire list of beans. Pkt., loc. ; pint, 25c , 

 qt., 50c., post-paid. Qt., 35c.; peck, 12,25; bush., 

 |8.oo, by freight or express. 



