STOKES 

 TOMATO 



MASTER MARGLOBE 



FSU 



Average weight, 6^ounces. Ratio of depth to width, 90%. 

 Average number of fruit, 2 3. Days to maturity, 118. 



IN OFFERING FSU, a new and greatly enlarged 

 strain of Master Marglobe, we are giving the ship- 

 ping trade what is perhaps the most important type 

 improvement in a decade. Here is one item in com- 

 merce, the introduction of which does not have to be 

 postponed until the end of the war. It is ready for you 

 now. 



Ever since 1927, Stokes Master Marglobe (now in 

 its twentieth generation of single plant selection^ 

 has been generally acknowledged to be the most per- 

 fectly formed shipping Tomato that has been offered 

 the green-wrap trade. It consistently develops fruit 

 with a depth-to-width ratio in excess of 90% — an 

 unusually high figure. This depth factor was eventu- 

 ally responsible for smaller fruit. 



FSU is now in the F; generation of a U.S.D.A. X 

 Stokes Master Marglobe cross. The fruit is approxi- 

 mately 2 5% larger than either parent, and under 

 normal conditions will develop a high proportion of 

 the crop in a 6 x 6 size or larger. The interior qualities, 

 solidity, color, flavor, etc., are similar to the Master 

 Marglobe parent. It is a dual-purpose Tomato, — 

 equally valuable to the shipping and the canning trade. 



Price, postpaid : Trade pkt. 25 cts.; oz. 50 cts. 

 V4lb. $1.50; lb. $5; 5 lbs. $22.50 



R U T G E R 



RUTGERS, by a wide margin, is the most important 

 Tomato in this or any other country. It was 

 introduced in 1935 by Prof. L. G. Schermerhorn of the 

 New Jersey State Experiment Station. In eight years 

 it has spread to an enormous acreage. 



Rutgers is especially valuable to canners because of 

 its dark red interior. They also like its vigorous vine- 

 growth that develops a strong central stalk, which 

 ordinarily keeps the fruit out of the mud in both fair 

 weather and foul. The later maturing habit of Rutgers 

 prevents its wide use in New York, Michigan and 

 Wisconsin. 



Rutgers' ability to develop fruit running from 6 to 

 8 ounces in size has won it a host of friends among the 

 green-wrap shippers. Although some of our trade 

 has found the variety too rough for satisfactory lug-box 

 or climax basket packing, we would point out that 

 the Stokes strain of Rutgers, which has been selected 

 for greater depth and for smoother shoulders, has 

 for the most part developed an excellent market 

 Tomato. Rutgers will mature from five days to a week 

 after Master jMarglobe. 



Price, postpaid: Trade pkt. 25 cts.;oz. 50 cts. 

 V4lb. $1.50; lb. $5; 5 lbs. $22.50 



Average weight, 8 ounces. Ratio of depth to width, 86%. 

 Average number of fruit, 26. Days to maturity, 123. 



