FRANCIS • C • STOKES • AND • COMPANY 



Tomato 



Allow two ounces per acre if 

 planted in seed bed. When 

 planted in field allow 8 ounces 



Super-Standard Bonny Best (Stokes) 



This strain attains our ideal of type purity. It is recommended 

 for forcing or for intensive field cultivation. 



Outstanding features: Great type purity,' large size of fruit, 

 enormous productivity. 



THE now famous Bonny Best tomato was introduced by Walter P. Stokes in 190S. Our firm has been looked 

 to as headquarters for the variety since that time. With all respect to the production methods of some of 

 our competitors, we cannot report that their efforts on Bonny Best have always brought credit to the 

 industry- There are other good strains of Bonny beside our own, but there are a number of badly run out strains. 

 Many of the present types of Bonny have been allowed to deteriorate into a small unprofitable tomato which can- 

 not justify itself either in tonnage or in appearance. 



Super-Standard Bonny Best, now offered by us for the past seven years, combines all of the features of the 

 original Stokes introduction, with the added advantage of further and continuous selection. The result is that this 

 stock represents the highest type of Bonny it has baen our privilege to handle. Even under the unfavorable 

 weather conditions experienced, our yield per acre this year ran better than ten tons. The individual fruits aver- 

 aged nearly one-half pound each. Out of over 8,000 plants, our Mr. Stokes, who personally rogued the field, 

 found 12 plants which were slightly off type. These were removed. 



FOR FIELD 



The field acreage of Super-Standard Bonny Best about 

 equals the greenhouse space to which it is planted. Many 

 large growers have learned that the price it is necessary to 

 ask for such stock — S5.00 per ounce, $18.50 per % pound — 

 is not out of proportion to the results obtained. Even at 

 this 'figure, the planting cost is approximately $3.00 per 

 acre, — for the seed, being harvested under the most ideal 

 conditions, shows almost perfect germination. (We esti- 

 mate 5,000 seeds per ounce). Some of our customers have 

 sent in profit figures that are most extraordinary. The 

 seed cost was less than one per cent of their return. 



FOR GREENHOUSE 



If you, as a greenhouse man, are interested in securing 

 from $1.00 to $1.50 per plant under glass through the pro- 

 duction of a uniformly smooth, large, very productive, 

 scarlet tomato, you cannot do better than to plant Super- 

 Standard Bonny Best (Stokes). If your operations are in 

 the open field, whether for market or for the canhouse, 

 and you want to increase your tonnage per acre, we again 

 recommend Super- Standard Bonny Best (Stokes). Our 

 seed crop has been grown and harvested under perfect 

 conditions. The field itself was situated on ground that 

 had been in sod for a long time. We believe that it was 

 entirely free from Fusarium Wilt so often carried from the 

 seed fields. The crop has been harvested by our men with 

 our own machinery for seed purposes only. You are not 

 buying by-product seed. The germination is almost per- 

 fect, and last, but not least, as is the case with all of our 

 other stocks, this seed has been subjected to an organic 

 mercury treatment — Bayer's Dipdust — as a disinfectant 

 against any possible surface-carried disease. We consider 

 this particular lot of seed to be one of the finest we ever 

 offered our trade. 



Super-Standard Bonny Best (Stokes) is a tomato of 

 extraordinary vigor. 

 (Photo by Courtesy of Professor W. B. Mack) 



SPECIFICATIONS: 

 (Super-Standard Bonny Best.) 

 Color purity 90.9% Date of Test: October, 1927. 



Type purity 99.5% Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer.) 



Germination 98% Days to maturity: 95-130. 



Price delivered: Packet $1.00, V 2 oz. $3. 00, or. $5 00, 

 Va lb. $18.5-) 



The justly famous Stone Tomato was introduced by Livingston about 1888, but some seed catalogs still offer Ne* 

 Stone. Who said the world has not moved on apace in the last forty years? 



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