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Penn State Earliana (Stokes) 



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Outstanding features: 

 Extreme earliness combined with unusual size and smoothness of fruit 



VERYONE recognizes the 

 value of having the very 



earliest tomatoes on the 

 market. Dr. C. E. Myers, of 

 Pennsylvania State College, has 

 developed one of the most suc- 

 cessful strains, which we now offer 

 for the third year. Perhaps the 

 most impressive feature of Penn 

 State Earliana (Stokes), next to 

 its very early maturity, is the un- 

 usual size and smoothness of the 

 fruit. It is not unusual to mistake 

 Penn State Earliana for Bonny 

 Best, when seeing the harvested 

 fruit away from the vines. An- 

 other outstanding feature of Penn 

 State Earliana (Stokes) is the great 

 productiveness of the strain. Dr. 

 Myers did not offer this to the 

 public until he had worked on it 

 for twelve years. We consider he 

 has made a notable contribution. 

 The Earliana types are not suited 



This photograph is typical of the kind of tomatoes from which our 1927 crop Super-Standard 

 Bonny Best was saved. 



for heavy soils, and will not perform well on them. If you do 

 not have a warm, sandy loam, it is best not to attempt it. 

 Because Earliana is not resistant to wi u and to nail-head 

 rust it is not recommended for cultivation in Florida, Louisi- 

 ana or Texas. 





SPECIFICATIONS: 



Color purity 99.9% 

 Type purity 97% 

 Germination 94% 



Date of Test: October, 1927 



Disinfectant: Dipdust (Bayer) 



Days to maturity: 90-125 



Penn State Earliana produces large, smooth fruit. 



" The most outstanding in this line 



was your Penn State Earliana, which produced the 

 largest and most prolific early tomatoes I have yet 

 grown. They produced clusters with as many as 14 

 fruits of almost equal size. One of my main compet- 

 itors, who is usually the first on the market with early 

 tomatoes, came over twice to see and admire them, 

 and finally asked for some of the seed as he said they 

 beat anything he had ever seen." — J. C. A., Illinois. 



Stokes Sixty Specials necessarily cover a limited 

 field. Our fellow seedsmen will be very glad to 

 fill in the missing items! 



Price delivered: Packet 50c, oz. $1.50, V 4 lb. $5 00, lb. $20.00. 



Stokes Three Strains of Tomato 



We are now limiting our activities on Tomato to three very 

 superior strains. The earliest, Penn State Earliana, is recom- 

 mended as a first early tomato for the more northerly states. 

 Super-Standard Bonny Best we offer for the seventh year with 

 unusual confidence in its success as a money maker for the 

 grower, whether under glass or whether for field cultivation. 

 Bonny Best does not have a strong reputation for disease 

 resistance, but we have exceptional confidence in the vigor 

 and robustness of our stock, and have reason to believe that 

 it will withstand many of the difficulties growers have had 

 with Bonny Best from other sources. Our description of 

 Marglobe on the following page tells a very full story as 

 regards our seed and our methods of saving it. All of our 

 Tomato seed has been saved under our own supervision, and we 

 have the utmost confidence in it. The fact that it is all subjected 

 to our treatment of disinfection also gives it an added value. 



Which Do You Choose? 



