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SEEDS 



Stokes Bonny Best 



THE FAMOUS SUPER-STANDARD STRAIN 



A run-out type 



CROP1925 A well-bred type 



Days to maturity, 130. We take genuine satisfaction in offering this much-heralded strain of 

 Tomato for the fifth year. With the 1925 crop, we have developed a purity of type which we have 

 never before achieved. We consider it the fmest stock of Bonny Best so far produced. Combined 

 with this factor of purity, and perhaps a matter of even greater importance, is its unusual produc- 

 tiveness. Never have we received such astonishing reports from customers in every district on the 

 actual profits which our Super-Standard Bonny Best has developed for practically everyone who has 

 grown it, all of which is very encouraging, for we don't mind admitting having spent more time and 

 effort in the development of this strain than any other individual stock that we offer. Naturally, it 

 is a great satisfaction to know that this effort has been expended to good purpose. 



Profit figures are often misleading, but we have heard so many instances in which our customers 

 took in between $500 and $1,000 from the produce of an ounce of this seed, that we feel entirely 

 justified in speaking of it. One customer, from near Black Hall, Conn., reports a return of $400 from 

 a $1 package of seed, which planted one-quarter acre of ground! This figure has been repeated, and 

 in some cases more than doubled, on the same quantity of seed grown under glass. 



We recommend Super-Standard Bonny Best for field cultivation or for greenhouse forcing. Under 

 glass it will produce fruits weighing from 6 to 8 ounces each, with plants giving a total pick of five 

 pounds and upward. Some of the largest greenhouse crops of Tomato in the United States and Canada 

 are being grown with this strain, all of which has been produced on our seed-farm in New Jersey. 



We attribute our success in developing this strain to our practice of single-plant line-breeding. 

 The entire 1925 crop was the product of four plants which averaged 54.5 fruits each. The first third 

 of the fruits gathered weighed just under 8 ounces; the average width was 3 inches and depth 2^ 

 inches. The color is an intense scarlet. 



Our Tomato crops were inspected by many customers, as well as Experiment Station men, and 

 the unanimous opinion was that our Super-Standard Bonny Best was one of the finest crops ever 

 grown. Perhaps of all this praise, that which we value the most highly has come from our own neigh- 

 bors—farmers who have grown Tomatoes as a life-time job. They unanimously pronounced this 

 crop the finest they have ever seen, and all of them have made arrangements for a seed-supply from 

 it for their own fields next year. Another instance has come to us from the Secretary of the Marietta 

 Truck Growers Association, an organization which uses large quantities of this strain. He told us 

 that the prevailing opinion was that our strain of Bonny Best was by far the most profitable of any 

 their members had planted. One man planted part of his crop with our strain and part with seed from 

 another source. His statement was that if he had planted his entire crop with our seed he would 

 have been $400 better off. 



If you in the past have hesitated to pay $5 an ounce for Tomato seed, perhaps you can learn a 

 lesson from those who have. To all such, we can only say that this first cost in many cases has proven 

 to be less than 1 per cent of the value of the crop. 



In the final analysis, this Tomato will be judged by its performance. If you are still in doubt, we 

 shall be glad to send you the names and addresses of growers near you who know what this strain 

 can produce. You can then examine their record for your own satisfaction. If you are interested in 

 securing a yield of from 15 to 20 tons per acre or a return of $1.30 to $1.60 per plant under glass, 

 give Super-Standard Bonny Best a trial. Price, delivered: Pkt. $1; Vzoz. $3; oz. $5; Vilb. $18.50. 



"In securing Tomato seed, the grower cannot exercise too much care. Price should not be the 

 controlling factor, providing the right sort of seed can be purchased." — Taken from "The Culture of 

 Early and Late Outdoor Tomatoes," by MacLennan and Presant. 



East Setauket, L. 

 Gentlemen: 



[., N. Y., February 21, 1925 



We Jeel that your Super-Standard strain of Golden 

 Bantam Sweet Corn should be good, having had such 

 wonderful success with your Super-Standard Bonny Best 

 Tomatoes. Took $630 off half an acre last summer, and 

 oh, what a bad year it was, with the cold spring followed 

 by the long drought! 



Please quote us price of 7^ pounds of Golden Bantam 

 seed, delivered. (Signed) Donald V. Ferguson 



Gentlemen: SufField, Conn., July 20, 1925 



/ am compelled to write to you of the wonderful success 

 I have had with your seeds, the best of anything I ever 

 had in a forty-year experience. I am, and have been, 

 selling your Bonny Best Tomatoes for two weeks at 

 $6.^0 and $7.^0 a basket of 20 pounds. The plants 

 are loaded with wonderful Tomatoes and I expect to get 

 far over $1,000 per acre for them. 



The melons {Bender) are also excellent; not a missing 



hill in 7 acres of them, and some of them are g inches in 

 diameter already. The best of all, they seem to be all 

 true to name. From seed last year which I bought from 

 another seed firm, I raised melons and when we delivered 

 them I was asked how many different melon patches I 

 had to get the 57 varieties. No more of that! 



(Signed) Herman Ude 



Gentlemen: Bettendorf, Iowa, February 21, 1925 



This will be my third season for your seeds, and I 

 must say that I think your policy of handling a few but 

 good and true-to-name varieties, and also the germination 

 test, gives a person confidence in your seeds. Was glad 

 to see you add New Zealand Spinach to your list this 

 season as it is a good one. 



I sure had extra good luck with your Super-Standard 

 Bonny Best last year, selling about $300 worth of 

 Tomatoes from one packet of seed. Even when Tomatoes 

 got plentiful, they brought from 2^ to 50 cents a bushel 

 more than other varieties. (Signed) G. F. Kuehl 



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