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Stokes* « «Bonny Best Early " Tomato 



The "Bonny Best" has made good wherever it has been offered. A market 

 gardener in Texas writes me: "It's the Tomato for Texas." A customer from 

 "Its splendid foliage is just what we want here to protect the beautiful fruit." 



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"Bonny Best Early" is fully ten days to two weeks earlier than Chalk's Early Jewel, and as early as most strains of 

 Earliana. It is a vigorous grower, enormously prolific, setting twelve to fifteen smooth, round, globe-shaped fruits in the 

 crown setting, and as a shipping Tomato it is one of the very best, as the entire picking will grade in the same crate owing 

 to its remarkable evenness of size. 



"Bonny Best Early," in color is an intense, velvet, glowing scarlet, ripens up evenly to the stem without crack or 

 black spot. Pkt. 10 cts., l ioz. 25 cts., oz. 40 cts., l^lh. $1.25, lb. $4, by mail postpaid. 



"Bonny Best Early" for Greenhouse Forcing 



"Bonny Best" is the finest forcing Tomato under glass it is possible to obtain. Far better in every way than the 

 Comet, Lorillard, etc. I have some seed saved from the Crown Setting only, especially saved for greenhouse use. Pkt. 

 20 cts., ^oz. 75 cts., oz. $1.25. 



Read what the authorities of the Pennsylvania State College think of it 



Prof. R. L. Watts, of The Pennsylvania State College, writes in the October 14. 1911, issue of "The Weekly Market Growers' Journal": 

 "Bonny Best Tomato has come into prominence within the last two years. It was introduced by Walter P. Stokes, of Philadelphia, and it is now a favorite 

 on hundreds of truck farms and market gardens and in many greenhouses. The variety is slightly later than Earliana but is smoother and more salable. 

 Eugene Davis has tried it in his houses at Grand Rapids and he is favorably impressed with its excellent qualities as a greenhouse Tomato. The variety has 

 made a splendid showing in the Pennsylvania State College greenhouses, although not as productive as Globe." 



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