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One ounce will produce about 1,200 plants; quarter pound to transplant for an acre. 
For very early fruit the seed should be sown in a 
hot-bed about the first week in March in drills 3 in- 
ches apart and half inch deep. Later sowings may 
be made until the last of April. Sufficient plants for 
a small garden may be started by sowing a few seed 
in a shallow box or flower pot and placing in @ win- 
down in the house. When the plants are 3 or 4 in- 
ches high they should be set out 4 or 5 inches apart 
in another hot-bed or cold frame, or removed into 
small pots, allowing a single plant to a pot. Expose 
to the air as much as possible to harden. Water 
freely at time of transplanting, and shelter from the 
sun a few days until the planis are established. Cul- 
tivate thoroughly as long as vines will*permit, but 
the last two or three workings should be very shal- 
low (surface cultivation) or the crop may be badly 
injured, especially if the cultivator is run too near 
the plants. Tomatoes will admit of training to 
stakes or trellises, and the fruit is very much im- 
proved, not only in appearance but in quality. This 
mode of cultivation is quite common among garden- 
ers who grow for early market. 
EXTRA EARLY VARIETIES. 
Chalk’s Early Jewell—An exiremely early 
rariety of brightest scarlet color, deep fruited, 
very hardy and sohith with few seeds and of ex- 
cellent flavor. The popular early variety. 
Packet, toc. Ounce, 25c. % pound, 75c. Livingston’s Beauty Tomato.—The jinest, 
Pound, $2.50. large-fruited, early purple variety. A decided 
Earliana—The earliest large Tomato—Is favorite for home market or shipping, being 
not only remarkable in earliness, but for its early, hardy, a strong grower, productive, 
very large uniform size, handsome shape, red large, always smooth, perfect shape and excel- 
color and wonderful productiveness. Packet, lent in quality. Color a very glossy crimson, 
toc. Ounce, 25c. 4 pound, 75c. Pound, $2.50. with a tinge of purple. Grows in clusters of 4 
i ae to 6 large fruits, retaining its large size late in 
Acme.—One oi the earliest and best purple . the season. Ripens early and is entirely free 
sorts; of medium size, perfectly smooth, very igom ribbed and elongated iruit. Flesh very 
solid and a great bearer, crimson color with firm, has a tough skin and but few seeds. Sei- 
pinkish cast. Packet, 5e. Ounce, 5c. ~34 dom rots or cracks after a rain. Packet, 5e 
pound, 50c. Pound, $1.50. Ounce, 20c. ™% pound, 50c. Pound, $1.75 
“JUNE PINK” TOMATO. 
A New Pink Variety, as Early as 
Spark’s Earliana.—In habit of growth 
this is similar to the Earliana. The plant 
is compact, branching freely; has fruits 
hanging in clusters. Claimed to be as 
good a yielder as Spark’s Earliana and 
shows no tende1 ht. They are 
of medium size, ee orm, smooth, with- 
out cracks or any green core. The skin is 
reasonably tough, so that it is excellent 
for arate purpos Cis ta 
pleasing pink, and the quality is of the 
wery- best Per pki. Tacs. 702. 50. 
FOR GENERAL CROP. 
Trophy. —Very large, solid and general- 
ly smooth; selected strain. Packet 5c. 
Ounce, 20¢. %4 pou 
Prizetaker.—A spl lendid eens to- 
mato. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 20c. ™% pound, 
50c. Pound, $1.50. 
Dwarf Champion. —This tomato is 
dwari and Eonipact 4 in growth, the plants 
growing stiff and pright, with thick 
jointed stems a io oliage unlike any 
other tomato. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 20¢. " ea TAKER TOMATO. 
% pound, 60c. Pound, $2.00. 
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Trucker’s Favorite—The best of all main crop, purple colored tomatoes. It is one of 
largest tomatoes grown, and is most regular in shape and size. Color purplish-red, very so 
firm flesh, a good keeper, and not subject to rot or crack on the vines. Packet, 5c. Ounce, 30¢. 
pound, 75c. Pound, $2.50. 
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