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HENDERSON'S CRIMSON CUSHION TOMATO 



THE SCARLET BROTHER OF PONDEROSA 



YV7HEN we introduced the Ponderosa, 

 we hazarded the opinion that that 

 famous variety was the forerunner of a new 

 race of tomatoes that would eventually 

 displace the seedy, acid sorts in cultiva- 

 tion, and the advent of this splendid 

 variety verifies this prediction. The Crim- 

 son Cushion is more symmetrical in shape 

 than the Ponderosa and is much thicker 

 through from stem to blossom-end ; in fact, 

 so marked is this characteristic that it 

 is frequently almost round. The color is 

 brilliant scarlet-crimson, untinged with 

 purple, and ripens up almost completely 

 to the stem. The Crimson Cushion, like 

 the Ponderosa, is almost seedless. The 

 flesh is firm and meaty and of stiperb 

 quality. It is enormously prolific and 

 very early for so large a tomato. (See cut.) 

 Price, 10c. pkt., 60c. oz., $2.00 \ lb. 



The Earliest Large Tomato — A continuous and late fruiter — Of 



immense size and as smooth as an apple — Ripens thoroughly 



all over, the stem-end coloring as well — Almost seedless 



and as solid as beefsteak — Prodigious bearer. 



"Your Crimson Cushion surpasses any other tomato I ever grew in beauty and flavor and the size is 

 perfectly enormous." Mrs. M. WELSH. Clinton, Md. 



"Crimson Cushion will yield a crop where all other tomatoes fail; for beauty, size and flavor they 

 cannot be excelled." J. W. DALE, Du Boise, Pa. 



"The Crimson Cushion is the finest tomato I have ever tried and I have quite a name for raising fine 

 tomatoes." Mrs. WALTON FORT, Minden, La. 



"Last year we had plenty of tomatoes from your Crimson Cushion until Election Day — while our 

 neighbors' tomatoes were a failure in almost every instance, owing to the damp season." 



L. J. ROW EN, Cedar Falls, la 



EARLY FREEDOM TOMATO 



THE BEST EARLY TOMATO IN EXISTENCE 

 Not only early, but a prodigious and continuous bearer until frost. Fruits of 

 moderate size, as handsome and uniform as if moulded. Quality, 

 solidity and flavor surpassingly fine. 



Early Freedom is unqualifiedly superior to any other early tomato grown. 

 Its value lies not only in the actual time of ripening its first fruit, but that 

 such enormous quantities of fruit can be gathered while all other so-called 

 "Earlies" are ripening only a few. The fruits are of good size, brilliant 

 scarlet in color, perfectly round, smooth and remarkably handsome. The 

 flesh is solid, of perfect flavor and absolutely free from any acidity. The fruits 

 are borne in large clusters, in phenomenal abundance and continuously, 

 from the middle of July (in this latitude) until killed by frost. We con- 

 sider Freedom the best variety for greenhouse cultivation. It sets its fruits 

 very freely, and produces large clusters of most attractive fruit, medium in 

 size, and is of far better quality than the seedy, pulpy varieties generally 

 used for this purpose. It also has a very tough skin and flesh is very firm, 

 making it the best shipper and keeper of the early varieties. {See cut. ) 

 Price, 10c. pkt., 40c. oz., $1.25 \ lb., $4.00 lb. 



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