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Bonny Best 

 Early Tomato 



Stokes' Bonny Best Early Tomato has 



more than met my most sanguine expecta- 

 tations ; it has made good wherever it has 

 been offered ; from Maine to Texas the same 

 story of success, both in the quality of the 

 fruit and its enormous productiveness, and 

 for both of out-of-door use and for indoor 

 forcing, one universal judgment is the same — 

 ' the finest Tomato for all purposes ever 

 introduced." 



Stokes' Bonny Best Early Tomato is 

 very early, quite as early as the best strains 

 of " Earliana," a vigorous grower, enor- 

 mously prolific, with splendid foliage, and of 

 an intense velvety glowing scarlet color; 

 ripens evenly all over and up to the stem. 



Pkt. 10 cts., J Aoz. 25 cts., oz. 40 cts., #lb. 

 $1.25, lb. $4 



I Am Going to Let My Cus- 

 tomers Tell the Story 



Please read the testimonials given below 

 and notice the dates, all being of very recent 

 origin. 



H. Ernest Hopkins, Pennsylvania, 

 writes October 25, 1910: "My test of yuur 

 'Bonny Best' Early Tomato was very sat- 

 isfactory: It ripened only a little behind 

 'Earliana' and was exceptionally large, 

 smooth and solid for an early Tomato. I 

 weighed one of the first clusters that 

 ripened; eight Tomatoes in the cluster 

 weighed one ounce less than four pounds; 

 almost an average of half a pound for the 

 whole cluster, which I think very good for 

 ordinary garden culture, no special efforts 

 whatever made to get extra results." 



H. D. Whitehead, Illinois, writes, January 24, 1910: "/ 

 want to say right here, that I r.ised the 'Bonny Best' To- 

 rn 1 to last year, and, although my first planting was totally 

 destroyed, leaving vie nothing nut thirty-eight small plants, 

 which my three-year-old daughter had raised, I succeeded in 

 raising several bushels of the finest, most even-sized Toma- 

 toes I h ive ever seen, and I think that fully go per cent of 

 them were as round, smooth and perfei t in shape as the 

 front piece of your igog catalogue. And I noticed they did 

 not scald and rot on the vine as other varieties did." 



Geo. Tong, Minnesota, writes, December it, 1909 : " I have 

 been quite interested in the ' Bonny Best' Tomato. I have 

 grown it two years, getting a package from Mr. Stokes the 

 first year it tame out, and think so much of it that neatly 

 the whole of my next year ' s plantings will be of this variety. 

 Th j thing that pleases me most outside of its earliness is its 

 smoothness and perfection of f'uit. Then they crack less, 

 rot less, and bear from July until frost /picked Tomatoes 

 two months from my plants and then picked some very fine 

 green ones. The size is not as large as some but large 

 enough." 



H. B Fuller ton, Esq., Director of the Long Island Ex- 

 periment Station, writes, August 2, 1909: " Your seeds have 

 been a marked success with us. The 'Bonny Best' has made a 

 ten strike. It came in three days ahead of Earliest Pink,' 

 which I found by far the best of 'he earliest, not excepting 

 the measly 'Earliana.' Your 'Bonny Best' has a big advan- 

 i ige over ' Earliest Pink' in its good rich color, and most 

 people incline to red tomatoes." 



Mrs. Lottie T. Brockston, Delaware, writes, August 10, 

 ig'o: "Our 'Bonny Best' Tomatoes have been the pride of 

 this neighborhood. They have been grand/" 



S. T. Walker, Oregon, writes, January 25, 1910 : "For two 

 years I have been planting 'Bonny Best' Tomatoes in connec- 

 tion with Earliana No. 10,' and 'June Pink,' and it has always 

 come out first and best." 



C. H. Zink, Colorado, writes, February 17,1910: "Perhaps 

 you would care to know that 'Bonny Best,' tried with a I the 

 early varieties in our garden in C lora^o, undrr irrigation , 

 proved the earliest as well as the best Remarkably uniform 

 in size, beautiful color, absolutely devoid of wrinkles, a per- 

 fect sheer, for which a local hotel paid me above market 

 price." . 



