STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY, MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY 



TOMATO 



BOXXY BEST (x V2) 



Earliana. 



125 Days. Introduced by Johnson & Stokes about 1900 under the name of 

 Spark's Earliaba. Immediately after its introduction and to this day the 

 tomato has known wide popularity and is looked upon as being the most important in 

 the entire list. Its chief merit lies in its earliness of ripening. Its earliness, however, 

 has also brought on certain weaknesses in the matter of light foliage, thinness of wall 

 of the tomato, lacking solidity as well as its habit of cracking around the stem. Oz., 

 25c; % lb., 75c; lb., $2.50; 10 lb., $24.00. 



Rnnnv D ac f 130 Days. This tomato was introduced by the late Walter P. Stokes 

 DOnny DCbl. in 1908. Since that time it has been adopted as the most important 

 second early tomato by nearly every seedsman in the United States and the value of the 

 variety to the tomato growers of this country cannot be estimated. 1922 will be the 15th 

 year since its introduction. The variety has been widely disseminated, but unfortunately 

 the good name of Bonny Best has sometimes been seriously hurt by unscrupulous seeds- 

 men selling inferior stocks. It is by all means the most important single item which 

 our company sells and our trade may feel very sure that we recognize this responsibility 

 and have taken firm steps to see that the stock was held to the same high standards as 

 in the beginning. Customers are urged to come to our Windermoor Farm for the purpose 

 of inspecting our Bonny Best Tomato during its growth. August 1st usually finds it at 

 the height of its season. 



Bonny Best, when grown under ideal conditions, should produce 10 to 15 tons of to- 

 mato per acre, the plants attaining a height of 2 1 - feet. The foliage will be much heavier 

 than the Earliana. The fruits will be borne in clusters and will be almost globe shape, 

 the structure of the fruit being very distinctive in that respect. They are thicker through 

 from top to bottom than the Chalk Early Jewel. Individual vines will often produce as 

 many as 150 perfect fruits. When sown in hot beds March 15th there will be ripe fruits 

 by July 15th and the crop will bear until September 1st. The intense scarlet color will 

 hold both in the interior and exterior of the tomato, which is much more solid than the 

 Earliana. Oz., 30c; *4 lb., $1.10; lb., $4.00; 10 lb., $38.50. 



Special Stock Bonny Best. 



For Greenhouse Forcing. (STOKES STANDARD.) 

 128 Days. This strain is especially recommended 

 for greenhouse purposes, for which it is used in large quantities. It is also purchased 

 by many growers for outdoor culture. This strain is the result of years of careful selec- 

 tion for earliness and uniformity of size, color and productiveness. It is also reasonably 

 resistant to the usual tomato diseases, although we are frank to admit that so far no 

 second early tomato has been developed which is entirely free from that danger. We 

 offer the strain, however, fully believing that it will give complete satisfaction. Oz., $1.00; 

 *4 lb., $4.00; lb.. $16.00. 



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