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its fruit. It is productive and 

 keeps long in bearing. Well 

 adapted for shipping. 



Livingston's Perfection. — 



Very similar to the foregoing in 

 shape and color. 



Tree Tomato. A variety which 

 grDws lii e a tree, bearing large, 

 plump red fruit. It is very produc- 

 tive, and qualit}' excellent. A fine 

 Tomato for the home garden. 



Ponderosa. Although not new 

 still we consider it worth meution- 

 ing, as a good many of our custom- 

 ers are looking for quantity as w^ell 

 as quality, and they are combined 

 in ihe Penderosa Temato. The 

 vines are strong and vigorous, fruit 

 smooth and free from ridges and 

 skin firm. Its color is a rich crim- 

 son. The fruit variesin weight from 

 two to three lbs. It is a splendid 

 variety for home use. 



New Barly Freedom Tomato. The j 



plant is medium in size, Fruit borne in ! 

 clusters, perfectly round, having no sign of I 

 •depression at the base, of a bright, brilliant 

 shade of scarlet. The flesh is remarkably 

 solid, seed cavity very small. The flavor is 

 perfect, absolutely free from any acidity. 

 Early as the earliest and matures at first 

 picking more than double of other early 

 sorts. One of the most prolific of any yet 

 brought out, and the largest very early To- 

 mato known to the trade to-day. 



Cleveland's Bxtra Purple Barly 

 Advance Tomato. This is the earliest 

 perfectly smooth tomato ever offered. Vines 

 are medium in size, strong growers, great 

 bearers, and continue bearing throughout 

 the season. Ten days earlier than the 

 JDwarf Champion. Fruits medium in size, 

 similar to the Dwarf Champion or Acme. 

 Ripens up evenly, of fine qualit}- and beau- 



ingston's &tone Tomato. 



Acme Tomato. 



tiful dark or purple red in color. Very profit- 

 able for market gardeners or truckers. 



Livingston's Stone. An excellent va- 

 riety, introduced about four years ago. and 

 found to be one of the best and most de- 

 sirable for our truck farmers. In Florida, 

 where Tomatoes for shipping are grown 

 more extensively than in Louisiana, and 

 where tough skinned varieties of good qual- 

 ity with full, solid and leader flesh are the 

 most desirable, the Stone has been selected 

 as one of iheir principal varieties. Thous- 

 ands of bushel boxes are anuually shipped 

 from there to southern and northern mark- 

 ets, and no variety has oiven better satisfac- 

 tion than this. The Favorite and Beauty 

 are excellent, and the Perfection holds its 

 place, but the Stone is not only their equal 

 but in some points their superior. For ship- 

 ping it cannot be surpassed. The fruit is of 

 the handsomest brightest scarlet; more glo- 

 bular in sh«pe than the Beauty or 

 Favorite and perfectly smooth and 

 glossy. One of the best varieties for 

 our climate and will without doubt in 

 the course of but a short time take 

 the place of either Beauty, Favorite 

 or Perfection. 



New Purple Cliaster Tomato. This 

 new and very distinct variety has been tried 

 n)) north where it gave entire satisfaction* 

 Tlie fruit is of a very dark purplish red 

 color, grows in clusters and gets very large. 

 It ripens even and perfect to steui, and is 

 entirely free from chick or rot. The skin 

 IS tough, perfectly smooth and the fruit 

 will bear shipping at any distance. It has 

 \ cry few seeds, in fact it may almost be 

 called seedless. It grows on strong and 

 \ igorous vines with dense dark green foli- 

 age. We are conlident that this will, when 

 once introduced, become one of our lead- 

 ing varieties. 



When in Doubt Consult Steckler. 



