PLANT STOKES SEEDS FOR THE VERY BEST VEGETABLES 



Stokes Bonny Best 



THE FAMOUS SUPER-STANDARD STRAIN * 



(1908) 



Germination 97% (About 5,000 seeds per ounce) 



Days to maturity, 130. Stokes seeds have been better advertised by the Bonny Best Tomato and the 

 friends it has made than by any other one factor. This is the third year we have offered this now-famous 

 Super-Standard Strain, and we are pleased to announce that our 1924 crop has been brought to its full 

 development and gathered to our entire satisfaction. In fact, we are more enthusiastic about it now than 

 ever. It is distinctly superior, we believe, to the 1923 seed which, during 1924, has netted hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars for those who planted it. All of the Super-Standard Bonny Best to be sold this year 

 will be from the 1924 crop. We consider it a high honor to have the responsibility of disseminating it. 



As a Strain for Greenhouse Forcing 



Super-Standard Bonny Best has come to be considered of outstanding importance in the minds of the 

 largest greenhouse men, experiment station experts, and even by our competitors in the seed trade. Under 

 good conditions, it should produce fruits weighing from 6 to 8 ounces each, with plants giving a total pick of 

 5 pounds and upward. In our stock seed selections we have made a great effort to increase th*e depth of the 

 Tomato from crown to blossom, and we are glad to say we are meeting with success on this point. In fact, 

 the present crop shows distinctly the advantage of an additional year's breeding over 1923 crop. As a 

 standard greenhouse Tomato, we are convinced that Super-Standard Bonny Best will prove superior to any 

 other strain we know of, providing your market will take a brilliant, scarlet Tomato, uniformly smooth, of 

 good depth, and just under the half-pound size. You are taking no chances in putting down your whole 

 greenhouse range to this stock, for all of it was gathered under the personal direction of Francis C. Stokes. 



As a Strain for Field Cultivation 



The breeding which this Tomato has received at the hands of our Company is a strong enough factor 

 in itself to warrant giving it first consideration as a more profitable strain for field cultivation. This breeding 

 was easily noticeable in comparing our 1924 crop with any other Tomato crop we inspected this year. Several 

 customers who inspected our seed crop in September also confirmed this point. The selection work has 

 tended toward a heavier-producing, larger-fruited, and more disease-free type. Grown, as it was, in an 

 isolated corner of Burlington County, New Jersey, 35 miles from Philadelphia, on ground which had never 

 grown Tomatoes before, we have a feeling of confidence about it that would not be possible otherwise. 

 Much Tomato seed is now being produced on disease-infested soils. This being the case, it is no wonder that 

 the average Tomato crops tend to go to pieces so quickly. Our field of Super-Standard Bonny Best had the 

 official inspection of an officer of the Bureau of Inspection (New Jersey), who has certified the crop as being 

 true to type, highly productive, and unusually free from the usual Tomato diseases. We place our own safe- 

 guards around this crop, but the state certification gives additional protection to the buyer. Hundreds of 

 our customers who used our stock last year will testify to the quality of the fruit. In actual dollars and cents 



Dyou will be far ahead of your competitors if you use Super-Standard 

 Bonny Best. The original cost of $3 per acre for this strain as against 

 perhaps $1 per acre for ordinary seed, will prove of no consideration 

 whatever. If you have not tried our Super-Standard Bonny Best 

 in the past, don't put it off another season. You are distinctly the 

 loser by delaying it. 



, A well-bred type Price, delivered: Pkt. $1 ; y 2 oz. $3 ; oz. $5 ; y 4 lb. $18.50 A run -° ut ^ 



Examine the Record: 



In the final analysis, this Tomato will be judged by 

 its performance, and before making your purchase we 

 would have you examine its record. This past season 

 Francis C. Stokes inspected many greenhouse crops 

 that were planted from our Super-Standard Bonny 

 Best seed. The results were most gratifying. Probably 

 the best example of indoor propagation was in the range 

 of Wesley U. Herr & Son, .Salona, Pa. This may not 

 have been the most profitable crop visited, but it 

 seemed to be as perfectly taken care of as any. On 

 September 13, Mr. Herr sent us the final plant return, 

 this being $1.32. This was sent in with the notation 

 "very gratifying." This figure may have been sur- 

 passed by several customers, but we hold that it is a 

 representative result. Naturally the plant return of 

 $1.32 is not reached in field cultivation, for although the 

 tonnage is far heavier outside, the prevailing market 

 price is never equal to the price of greenhouse Torriatoes. 

 The figure, nevertheless, should be of interest to all 

 Tomato growers for comparative purposes. M. T. 

 Nixon, Sec, Marietta (O.) Truck Growers' Association 

 can give some interesting data on our Super-Standard 

 Bonny yields in field cultivation. 



Note on Pollinating Indoor Tomatoes: 



Because of the stillness of the air inside a greenhouse, 

 it is necessary to hand-pollinate Tomato blossoms in 

 order to secure a full set. In this connection we would 

 call attention to the work done by Prof. E. G. B. 

 Bouquet, of the Oregon Agricultural College. His 

 method of emasculating the blossom is fully described 

 in Station Bulletin No. 158, as published by the Oregon 

 Agricultural College. Prof. Bouquet estimates that 

 10 cents covers the cost of pollination for an entire 

 plant. By such methods he secured an average of 11 

 pounds 6 ounces per plant with our Super-Standard 

 Bonny Best. The highest yielding plant was 16 

 pounds. All greenhouse men will recognize this as a 

 phenomenal yield. It is known that an ample supply 

 of pollen is of the greatest assistance in all pollinating 

 work. Inasmuch as no pollen is formed where there is 

 an excess of nitrogen, it may be found best to cut down 

 the water-supply during the ten days or two weeks 

 when the main set is being made, waiting until after 

 this before applying nitrate of soda. Hand-pollinating 

 should be done with the first two fingers of the left 

 hand. This kind of work is most effective when done on 

 clear, dry days. 



* This seed has been treated with corrosive sublimate for your protection. Do not plant it in a disease- 

 infected seedbed 



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