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STOKES' FAMOUS 

 TOMATOES 



No vegetable in the entire list catalogued is given more atten- 

 tion, nor are the strains offered more carefully looked after, than 

 m5' Tomatoes. All of the seed offered is grown speciallj' 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 earlj' 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 ver}' 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 

 Stokes' **Floracroft Earliana** 

 Tomato 



Hie Earliest Tomato on Eartb 



The Earliana Tomato is now the 

 standard early Tomi:to of the land 



SPEC I ALT Yi 



and is offered in every prominent seedsman 's catalogue, but 

 a great deal of the seed thus offered is a deteriorated stock 

 that has not been kept up to the original purity in earliness, pro- 

 ductiveness and fine, smooth shape. 



As the original introducer of the Earliana Tomato, I have been 

 interested to carefully conserve all of its good points, and I offer 

 a stock which is unequaled in earliness and in all of the good 

 points for which this remarkable variety is noted; so in consider- 

 ing price do not confound the "Floracroft" Earliana with the 

 ordinary strains of Earliana Tomato usuallj- sold. Pkt. 10 cts . 

 Koz. 25 cts., oz. 40 cts., Klb. Si. 25, lt>. {(4. 



Floracroft Earliana Tomatoes. (See how they hang.; 



m the 

 at 20 



The Enormous Tomato 



Crown Setting Seed. I have saved a limited quantity of seed, gathered fro; 

 Crown Setting only. This is seed stock that is offered as long as it lasts 

 cts. per pkt., J^oz. 75 cts., oz. $1.25. 



Spark's Earliana Tomato no. lo strain 



An excellent strain of this fine Tomato, only second to mj' "Floracroft" Earli- 

 ana. By starting your plants early you can have ripe fruit by the i.stli to 20th of 

 June. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 30 cts., 't'lb. S5 cts., 11). S3 



The Enormous Tomato 



It is often desirable to have a Tomato of very large ^^^r^ i A I -t-"w1 



size, and in the past these very large fruits ha\e l)cen ^^^^ ""^^ 1 T | 



mostly of a rough, ung.iinly shape, but in the Enormous Tomato we have one that 

 is of the true, round Tomato shape, very solid and heavy; flesh thick and firm 

 with very few seeds and no core; very free from rot, and in color a deep, rich red 

 with no trace of the purple tint so often found in large Tomatoes. It is profitable 

 to Iiave these extra-large Tomatoes come into l)earing late, wlien all other varieties 

 get small, and these will go begging w hen you come in witli your fine, big fel- 

 lows late in Julv, August, and well into .September. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts., K'b. 

 Jti.35 lb. 



Stokes* "Matchless" Tomato 



The best large-fruited, bright red, late Tomato. A handsomer Tomato than 

 "Stone," more globe-shaped, firmer fiesh, finer cjualitj-, and splendid keeper. They 

 are free from core, smooth, ripening up to the stem, and of the finest flavor. 

 I'kt. 10 cts., oz. 30 cts., '^Ib. 85 cts., lb. S3. ' 



New "Coreless" Tomato 



This is a new Tomato; is a distinct globe-shaped, bright red, large main- 

 crop variet}'; it is almost round, being the same diameter each way. It is very 

 productive, forming in clusters of four to seven fruits, always free of a green core, 

 and its shape makes an excellent sliciuir v.iriety. Tliis would make a splendid 

 Tomato for canners or catsup-makers. Pkt, 10 ct-^,, '.-uz. 20 cts., oz. 35 cts., Kh'. 

 ■^i, lb. 53.25. 



Leon A. Lusk, Scabrook. Texas. July s. 191 1, writes: "An unsolicited testimonial in be- 

 half of your 'Bonny Best' Tomato is due you. It is really better than you claim for it. It 

 has proven, to my sati.sfaction, that quality, productiveness, drought-resisting, blight-proof, 

 uniformity of size, and in fact all the good traits of a Tomato, are embodied in your 'Bonny 

 Best' Tomato." 



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