SUPER-STANDARD STRAINS 



Two Super-Standard Greenhouse Strains 



This firm has a high reputation to maintain on forcing stocks of Tomatoes. Our customers have 

 reported our forcing type of Bonny Best, heretofore sold as Super-Standard Bonny Best, to be con- 

 sistently profitable. Astonishingly large quantities of the stock were sold, even at the high price it is 

 necessary to ask for it. Our supply of this strain this year, although limited in amount, is of very 

 superior quality. Marglobe, our other greenhouse forcing type, shows equal promise with the Bonny 

 Best, especially in its ability to resist certain indoor diseases. We recommend that every greenhouse 

 Tomato grower try some Marglobe this year. 



Stokes Bonny Best 



FORCING TYPE 



A Remarkably Profitable Strain. Formerly Sold as Super-Standard Bonny Best 



Days to maturity, 130. This (1927) is the sixth year we have offered this worthy strain. We look 

 on it as a very superior type of Bonny Best, for it combines great purity of type with unusual pro- 

 ductiveness, which has been attained through our practice of single-plant line-breeding. This year's 

 crop is the second generation produced from four plants which averaged 54.5 fruits each. The first 

 third of the fruits weighed just under eight ounces each and averaged 3 inches in width and 2^§ inches 

 in depth, a size far above the average Bonny Best. The color is intense scarlet. 



Our crop, this year, was grown in Burlington County, New Jersey, and turned out a very heavy 

 yield regardless of the long period of rain. If in the past you have hesitated to pay S5 an ounce for 

 Tomato seed, perhaps you can learn from those who have. A number of our customers have sent in 

 their profit figures and they are most unusual. The seed-cost was far less than 1 per cent of their 

 return. If you are interested in securing a return of SI. 30 to SI. 60 per plant under glass, or from 15 to 

 20 tons per acre in the field, give our Forcing Type Bonny Best an important place in your operations 

 this year. This Forcing Type Bonny Best is almost equally profitable as an early stake Tomato. 

 On the famous Marietta, Ohio, truck farms, this special Stokes Bonny has a host of loyal friends. 

 It has returned these men very handsome profits, for it is a type that responds quickly to staking 

 and pruning. Heaw pickings of uniformly perfect fruit are the secret of this success. Price, deliv- 

 ered: Pkt. $1; y 2 oz. $3; oz. $5; V 4 lb. $18.50. 



The Marglobe 



FORCING TYPE 



Days to maturity, 136. Marglobe has already 

 established itself as a successful greenhouse variety. 

 The one criticism that has been made against it is its 

 tendency to produce too large a Tomato. This, how- 

 ever, can be controlled by less severe pruning. The 

 ability of Marglobe to withstand wilt and other disease 

 holds good under glass as well as in the open, and for 

 this reason some of our customers are favoring it over 

 the invaluable forcing type, Bonny Best. We do not 

 believe, however, that Marglobe will ever completely 

 take the place of Bonny Best as a greenhouse type. 



The strain we offer herewith has been grown direct 

 from Mr. Pritchard's stock seed, and particular care 

 has been taken with the crop through every operation. 

 The Marglobe is a beautifully shaped scarlet Tomato 

 which is not only highly attractive in appearance but 

 also of most delicious table quality, a factor that is of 

 importance with any Tomato grown under glass. 



The accompanying photograph of Marglobe was made 

 this past spring by Prof. W. B. Mack, in the green- 

 house of Pennsylvania State College, and very largely 

 speaks for itself. At 25 cents per pound, fruit of this 

 kind will prove very profitable, and that is a fair aver- 

 age price for greenhouse Tomatoes. Plan to put at least 

 part of your greenhouse space into Marglobe this year. 

 You cannot go wrong on it. Price, delivered: Pkt. $1; 

 V2OZ. $3; oz. $5. 



See also pages 40 and 41 



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STOKES 



CU«1W UNCI 147> 



SEEDS 



Marglobe under glass 



Photo through courtesy of Prof. W. B. Mack 



