WHAT PATRONS SAY 

 JPonderosaXomato 



Our space wiUonly permit us printing 

 a few ol the testimonials we received as 

 to the worth of this wonderful Tomato. 

 Those here given were taken from hun- 

 dreds, every one of which was unsolicited. 

 Wo publish them verbatim, except that 

 we substitute PONDEKOSA.wherever " No. 

 ■100 " occurs. This alteration we make to 

 familiarize the public with the variety's 

 proper name. 



fh-: thus!, largest most j 

 ductive tomato grown, is a splendid shipper, 

 and for canning purposes cannot be excelled. 

 $!;;:• thin, but so tough that it will keep longer 

 in good condition than any other. 



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I weighed the four largest of the Ponderosa 

 Tomatoes ;four tomatoes weighed 88 ounces, 

 and one of them alone weighi-d 2J4 (6s. Am 

 well repaid for my purchase and shall come 



Sept. 23, '91. Lincoln, Mass. 



Your Ponderosa Tomato does not fail to 

 arrest attention. ThefruU is almost as firm 

 as an apple, has little juice and few seeds. 

 These slender plants, trained and standing 

 erect, tree-like clothed in foliage of the dark- 

 est green and bearing such immense burdens 

 of crimson fruit, is a sight rarely equaled. 



SILAS L. SNYDER, 

 Sept. 23, '91. Tabcrg, Oneida Co.,N. Y. 



The Ponderosa has spoiled us for eating 

 any other tomato, on account of its fine qual- 

 ity. D. W. MANNING, 

 Sept. 21, '91. Kansas City, Mo. 



I never saw any to equal your Ponderosa 

 Tomato, either here or in California. We 



Sept. 22, '91. 



37li8 morning- 1 picked one of your Pon- 

 derosa Tomatoes and weighed it and it tipped 

 the scales at 3 lbs. o ozs. 



B. PICEEL. 

 Sept. 22, '91. Anemia, Conn. 



Every one who tasted your Ponderosa 

 Tomatoes pronounced them not only the larg- 

 est but the best flavored. 



THEODORE POTTS, 

 Sept. 15, '91. Paris, Ark, 



The grand Tomato, Ponderosa, excels 

 anything of the kind I ever saw, and I have 

 for more than 20 years bought seeds of the 

 finest tomatoes I could gel. It is all that 

 could be desired. 



Mrs. WM. DUESLER, 

 Sept. 14, '91. Maryville, Mo. 



In a bed of 21 plants I pulled off ripe to. 

 matoes in three weeks enough to Jill thret 

 bushels, lacking a very few. 



MAGGIE I. CRIST. 

 Sept. 10. '91. 



101A, 1891.- Miss JOSIE YATES. 



Oswego, N. Y. 



I had one of your Ponderosa Tomatoes 



for dinner to-day. It weighed 3 lbs. 1 oz., 



vas as solid, fine meat as lever saw, very 



smooth, and ft 



SepUW. '91. 



THE JURY IN THE TOMATO NAME CONTEST. 



The illustration shows an interior view of our private office in New York, and seated therein Dr. 

 Hexamer, Editor of American Agriculturist, Mr. E. S. Carman', Editor of Rural New Yorker, both of New York, 

 and Mr, Wm. Falconer, Glen Cove, N. Y. These gentlemen constituted the jury whose verdict gave the 

 name PONDEROSA to the "No. 400" Tomato. Mr. John Thorpe, Chief of Floriculture in the Columbian 

 Fair, was on the original committee, but was unfortunately ill in Chicago at the time the name contest was 

 decided, and Mr. Falconer at our request kindly consented to serve. All three gentlemen are widely known 

 in connection' with horticultural affairs, and their unanimous choice of the successful name will, we think, 

 meet with general approval. Certainly the five contestants who suggested the winning name think so. Our 

 check for $50 each has been sept to 



W. L. AKERS. Braddock, Allegheny Co., Pa. I DR. W. P. McDERWIOTY, SMSdn JoeeAv.,San Francisco. 



MRS. N. E. CAINES, Dade City, Pasco Co., Fla. I Cat. 



LAURA Nl. CRI NSTED, 637 Ninth St., N.E., Washlngton.D.C. | CEO. SUMMEY. Chester. Chester Co., 8. O. 



NOW THEM ~fobT892 we offer $500,00 



For the Heaviest ana 



oo to too dUstrltoi**©** *u 



Beat formed Single Tomato . .$150 00 I For 6th I 



I.' ^ " .. 100.00 " »» 



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" " .; 35,00 I "10th 



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, 20.00 

 , 10.00 

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 .8500.00 



WHAT PATRONS SAY 

 ronderosa Tomal 



{Conti, 



from the time the s 

 SepLi, 



Ripe fruit Aug. 27th, mijusl 100 days 



•'"■'of the Ponderosa To- 



.,.«<*/ ww, sown — me most rapid growth I 



have ever known for a tomato, and I have 



business for 50 years. 



JOHN HODGEIN, 



Falls Church, Va; 

 As a fruit on the tea-table they are exqui- 

 site; they have no fibre, th> coarseness, no 

 rankness; the smalt seeds are so embedded 

 m the delicate meat as to be called almost 

 seedless. MARY F. KELLOGG, 



Sept. 8, '91. Qorham, Maine. 



Everything wanted in a tomato is found in 

 Tomato Ponderosa. LVLA FO WLER I 

 SW- 2, "91. Eureka, Kan. 



We have given your Ponderosa Tomato a 

 our grounds, and find U a grand ac- 

 quisition. It is a vigorous grower and an 

 immense bearer of very large, fine tomatoes. 

 ■ D. ALDERMAS, 



Ottawa, Kansas. 



The Tomatoes raised from the seed of Pon- 



dfrosa look the 1st prize at the Loudoun Co. 



Fair, Va., and were pronounced the most 



beautiful ever seen. 



Miss LAURA BOWIE, 

 Oct. 1, '91. Reading, Pa. 



Provincial Exhibition opiate 



Sept. 8, '91. 



pared to my second size Tomato from Pon- 

 derosa seed. ' JANE MAJOR, 

 Sept. 29, '91. 



Every word tl 



iaboutthe Tomato 



t years ond/otmd 



Akron, Ohio. 



good 



Aug. 31, '91. 



I have given all your new 

 trial for the last seven years 

 as represented, but the 

 them all. WALTER BOY, Gardener, 

 Aug. 31, '91. BurUngton, Vermont 



Those Ponderosa Tomato seeds you sent 

 me last spring I planted, and the result is 

 they are the finest in this section. I set out 

 about forty plants and they all came out oood. 



HENRY W. OTTO 

 Aug. 30. -91. Meriden, Conn. 



Your Ponderosa Tomato is more a very 



R. W. SLADE, 



16, '91. Columbus, Go. 



This novel Tomato, Ponderosa. is a new 



variety, large, smooth, of a dark, rich crimson 



color, hardy growth, prolific and well adopted 



■• THENOKABEE DEMOCRAT.- 

 July 18, '91 Macon, Miss. 



The seed of the new Tomato, Ponderosa, 

 which 1 purchased from you last spring, has 

 far exceeded my most eon 

 It is certainly the finest 



Aug. 7, '91. 



) stay, lite many other 1 



PRICE OF PONDEROSA TOMATO, 20 els. per pkt ■ 6 pfcto. for 5L00; 12 pMB. for S17S; SB pkU. for t&OO. 



