|] '^IgKE^^T^ SS^^ I VEGETABLE .§EEDS 



STOKES' IMPROVED TOMATOES 



No vegetable in the entire list catalogued is given more attention, nor are the strains offered more carefully looked after, than my 

 Tomatoes. All of the seed offered is grown specially for seed. The crops are carefully inspected during growth ; and they can be relied 

 upon to produce the finest fruit. 



Culture. — Sow in hotbeds in early spring, or the seed may be sown in shallow boxes and placed in a window. Transplant to the open 

 ground when all danger of frost is past, setting the plants 3 to 4 feet apart each way. For very early use, the seed should be transplanted 

 into small pots and these set out in the open ground when it is warm enough. One ounce will produce about 1,300 plants. 



Red Tomatoes 



gJJ^ JJJf g» EARIjIANA.. stokes' Special No. 10 Strain. This sterling early variety has continued to gain friends all 



* over the country, until it is now the standard early Tomato of the land and is offered in every 

 prominent seedsman's catalogue. But a great deal of the stock 



r ' ■ I that is offered is not of the genuine type; and, as the original intro- 



^^^^^^^^^^^ ducer, I have carefully watched that all of its prominent advantages 



^^^tffl^H^^BH^^... of earliness, productiveness and fine smooth shape have been main- 



tained. The great advantage of the Sparks' Earliana is that the 

 whole crop can be marketed before the market is glutted with other 

 and later varieties, and Tomato-growers of the United States have 

 realized hundreds of thousands of dollars from this remarkable variety. 

 By starting your plants early you can have ripe fruit by the 15th to 

 20th of June. Introducer's choicest seed, pkt. 25 cts., oz. 45 cts., Klb. 

 $1.20, lb. $4.50. 



SPARKS' EARLIANA. From general crop. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 35 cts., 

 Klb. $1, lb. ^3.50. 



Sparks' Earliana Tomato (Stokes' Special Strain) 



READ THE TESTIMONIALS. YOU CAN DO THE SAME 



Wilson Ilhr, of 356 King Street, West Berlin, Ontario, Canada, writes : 

 "Have grown plants of your Earliana Tomato, and the fruits are ahead of 

 anything we have ever grown." 



Mr. John B. Day, of Bedford Station, N. Y., writes: "I have raised the 

 Earliana Tomato for the past two years, and no one could say anything in its 

 praise that I would not endorse." 



G. W. Bevis, Terre Haute, Ind., writes ; " I paid the rent on ten acres of 

 garden ground with that little ounce of Earliana Tomato seed I got from you 

 last year. It is the greatest Tomato for early money ever brought to market." 



Hknrv Bendlagh, Fort Madison, Iowa, writes : "Your Sparks' Earliana 

 are the best and earliest of all Tomatoes. If we can get here a few ripe Toma- 

 toes by July 4 we think we are early, but I commenced selling the Earliana 

 on the 20th of June, and for 30 days thereafter kept selling them for 20 cts. 

 per doz." 



C. M. Emory, Knoxville, Tenn., writes : " I am again having a good thing 

 with the Earliana, though I have not got the field all to myself, as I had two 

 years ago. I am now selling from five to ten bushels a day, getting from $2.50 

 to $3 per bushel." 



This fine Tomato originated in Montgomery county. Pa. It is a heavy cropper, of fine 

 large fruits, with a sweet flavor, about two weeks later than the Sparks' Earliana, and is 

 In color it is a bright scarlet, ripening up to the stem, without cracks or green core. The 

 Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts., Klb. 75 cts., lb. $2.50. 



S_^J»J''J'_^ ROSA. ''''^'^ variety originally came from Santa Rosa, California. It is of a mammoth sort, and yet, notwithstanding its 



great size, it is very symmetrical in shape, solid, meaty and almost seedless. Many of the fruits average from 



5 to 6 inches across and two-thirds as deep through. It is a very fine sort for the home garden, as it is enormously productive and of a fine 

 flavor, medium to late in ripening. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 35 cts., Klb. $1, lb. to.50. 



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CHALK'S EARLY JEWEL. 



recotnmended as a good medium early Tomato, 

 flesh is thick, quite solid, with coinparatively few seeds 



