.POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



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One ounce will produce about thirteen hundred plants. 



FOR years we have made a careful study of growing the 

 very best tomato seed. All tomatoes showing the 

 slightest variation from the standard type are rigidly 

 discarded, thus securing the purest possible seed. Our lonij 

 experience and great care enables us to furnish a prime arti- 

 cle of this important seed to market gardeners, and to retain 

 the patronage of all who deal with us. 



THE tIBEKTr BEtL. Offered last season for the 

 first. (See illustration and description under Novelties, page 

 21.) Pkt., 1.5c.; oz., 6oc.; M lb., $2.'25. 



THE GREAT B. B. TOMATO. (See illustration and 

 description under Novelties, page 21.) Pkt., lOc; oz., 35c.; 

 J^ lb., $1.00; lb., $3.50 



JOHNSON & STOKES" EXTRA EARLY TKOPHY. 



This variety was first discovered in a patch of tlie well-known 

 Trophy, where it ripened nearly two weeks ahead of others. 

 In shape it resembles the Trophy, but it ripens much earlier. 

 It is of a deep red color. And very productive, growing to a 

 good size, and does not show the least trace of rotting in its 

 early stage of growth, as the Acme and Paragon sorts do. 

 The tomato is firm, slightly lobed and has very few seeds. 

 Pkt., lOc; oz., .30c.; Yi lb., 75c.; lb., $2.75. 



EXTRA EARLY ADVANCE. A cross between Alpha 

 and Perfection, of bright scarlet color, medium size and good 

 quality. It surpasses the Alpha in wonderful early ripening 

 qualities, and equals Perfection in beautiful form and pro- 

 ductiveness. Pkt.,'5e.; oz., 25c.; J^ lb., 75c.; lb., $2.40. 



VOLUNTEER. ThistomatooriginatedonLong Island. 

 They grow to a large size, averaging six to ten ounces, 

 very smooth and perfect in form, color bright red, with 

 little core and very early. The quality is very superior 

 for table use and canning. Enormously productive, ripening 

 well to the stem. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 25c.; % lb., 75c.; lb., $2.50. 



EARLY OPTIMUS. A very fine new variety, some- 

 ^vhat resembling Favorite, but earlier and inoie uniform in 

 size. Fruit medium sized, oval, very smooth, exceedingly 

 bright, rich, crimson scarlet color, free from cracks and rot. 

 Pkt., 5c.; oz.,25c., J^ lb.. 75o.; lb., $2.50. 



THE MIKAUO, or TURNER HYBRID. This 

 varietyj also called the S1600 Tunxato, is entirely distinct. 

 The foliage difiers from other tomatoes, the large leaves be- 

 ing entire and not cut. It is a rank grower, with thick 

 stalks, and enormously productive. The fruit is extra lurge in 

 size, round, smooth, very thick through aiidremarkably solid. 

 The average weight of the tomatoes *s from twelve to eigh- 

 teen ounces. Tlieyripenupevenlyandareentirely freefrom 

 core. The skin is thin but rather tough, consequently the 

 tomatoes keep in fine condition much longer than most other 

 varieties. Pkt., lOc; oz., 30c.; J^ lb., 75c.; lb., $2.75. 



MATCHLESS. A new variety of large size and rich 

 cardinal red color; grown quite extensively in some sections 

 of New .Tersey for shipping. The great objection being the 

 deep indentation of the fruit around the stem. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 

 25c.; 34 lb., 75c.; lb., $2.50. 



EARLY MICHIGAN TOMATO. 



EARLY MICHIGAN, or RED APPLE. An ex- 

 tremely smooth and perfectly shaped tomato, as shown in 

 our illustration. Very early, ripening its first fruits a few 

 days after Atlantic Prize. Vines large, with large dark green 

 leaves; vigorous and wonderfully productive, fruit medium 

 size to large, and unlike most varieties growing larger as 

 the season advances. Solid, without any core, deep, rich red 

 color, and of excellent flavor. Admirably adapted to can- 

 Bjrs' use. Pkt., 10c. ; oz., 25c.; ^ lb.. Too.; lb., $2:50. 



NEW STONE. This tomato comes from Mr. Livingston, 

 the originator of the Paragon, Favorite, Beauty, Acme and 

 Perfection, which is of itself suflBcient recommendation. 

 Mr. Livingston writes : " The New Stone Tomato ripens for 

 main crop ; is very large and of bright scarlet color ; very 

 smooth, with occasionally a specimen very slightly octagon 

 shaped; ripening evenly to thestemwithoutacrack; exceed- 

 ingly solid and firm fleshed (as its name indicates); is an 

 excellent shipper; quality the very best; fine for canning; 

 a good keeper ; without hard core ; not subject to rot ; its 

 appearance on market remarkably attractive ; a heavy vari- 

 ety ; its vines and foliage rank and robust, heavily loaded. 

 Pkt., lOc; oz., 20c.; ]4 lb., 60e.; lb., $2.25. 



THORBURN'S LONGKEEPER. This new tomato 

 originated with Mb. E. S. Carman, editor of The Rural New 

 Yorker, who writes : 



" About thirteen years ago I raised all the kinds of toma- 

 toes popular at that time. Six of each were selected the same 

 day, of apparently the same stage of maturity, and of a bright 

 red color, as well as of the largest size and shapeliest form. 

 These were kept in a darkened room until all were more or 

 less decayed. From the last one to decay I selected seeds, 

 which were planted the next year. Careful selections have 

 been made every year since, always with a view to increas- 

 ing their longkeeping qualities, uniformity in shape, earli- 

 ness in ripening, as well as the productiveness of the vines." 

 Pkt.,10c.; oz.,25c.; iilb.,75c.; lb., 82..50. 



THE IGNOTUM. {Unknown.) This new tomato was 

 first discovered at the Michigan Agricultural College, in 1887. 

 by Prof. L. H. Baily, being a sport from a foreign variety 

 undertest. In our tests we find it earlier than Dwarf Cham- 

 pion, growing to very large size and remarkably smooth, 

 regular in size and very solid. It is of handsome deep red 

 color. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 30c.; H lb., 75e.; lb., $2.75. 



NEW BUCKEYE STATE. This new tomato, ofiered 

 last season for the first, is one of the largest of all the New 

 sorts, fully one-half larger than the well-known Beauty. It 

 is also a very heavy cropper, the tomatoes being borne in 

 clusters of four to eight fruits. The color is much the same 

 as Beauty, if anything a little darker, very solid, meaty, heavy 

 and of the finest quality. Pkt., lOc; oz., 30c.; lb., $2.75. 



LIVINGSTON'S ARISTOCRAT. We obtained seed 

 stock of this new variety direct from Mr. Livingston h.st 

 spring, and after critically testing it on our Trial Grounds, 

 we are of the opinion that it is one of the very best varieties 

 Mr. Livingston has ever put out, which is certainly saying 

 a great deal in its favor. The Aristocrat wasmuch admired 

 by all who visited Floraeroft last summer, attracting atten- 

 tion on account of itsverycrectand strong heavy viiieloaded 

 down with handsome red fruits of magnificent size and finest 

 quality. Pkt., lOc; oz., 30c.; 14 lb., 75c.; lb.,$2.75. 



LIVINGSTON'S ROYAL RED. Royal Red is a first- 

 class main crop variety for the shipper, market and private 

 gardener, and of special value to the canner and catsup 

 maker. Of late years quite a demand has sprung up for a 

 tomato without any purple tinge and of a deeper red than 

 any variety now on the market, and the beautiful red color 

 of both skin and flesh of Livingston's Royal Red is what is 

 desired. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c.; Ji lb., 60c.; lb., $2.25. 



DWARF CHAMPION. Avery distinct variety. Itsclose 

 upright growth allows it to be planted closer together than 

 other varieties. The fruit resembles the Acme, is of a 

 purplish pink color and always smooth and symmetrical in 

 form. It is of medium size and attractive in appearance ; the 

 skiu is tough and the flesh solid and of fine quality. A very 

 shy seeder. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 25c.; % lb., 75e.; lb., $2.50. 



