THE NEW MARGLOBE TOMATO 



STOKES 



CROWIXC SINCE IS79 



SEEDS 



unprecedented drought; 

 the New Jersey crop has 

 been shortened by early 

 frosts; but the California 

 crop promises to give us 

 full return. 



In the meantime, the 

 official tests were held in 

 Florida this spring and 

 careful records were kept by the 

 Government men in charge. These 

 trials were a great triumph for the 

 Mendehan Law. The factor of re- 

 sistance to Nail-Head held just as we 

 had hoped. One of the principal trials 

 was in the form of five rows of Mar- 

 globe in the midst of a 50-acre field of 

 Cooper Special, a Globe type. This 

 field was almost completely ruined 

 with Nail-Head Rust, whereas the 

 test-rows of Marglobe, which had re- 

 ceived the same treatment and cultivation, were almost entirely free of any sign of the 

 is generally looked on as a drab, uninteresting, dusty kind of affair by those who know 

 there is a bit of romance in a story of this kind. 



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Part of our stock 

 seed was taken 

 from these se- 

 lected fruits. There 

 were originally six 

 tomatoes in this 

 cluster. They 

 weighed 2 lbs., 15 oz. 



disease. The seed business 

 it only on the outside, but 



