TOMATOES 



Market Growers 

 Quality Stocks 



SEASONS INDICATED ARE APPROXIMATE FROM THE SETTING OUT OF THE PLANTS 



Prirchard or Scarlet Topper 



GULF STATE MARKET. A good shipping variety that is preferred 

 in some of the Southern States. The fruits are medium large, 

 globular, uniform, purplish pink, thick skinned, and relatively 

 free from cracking. Season 75 days. 



02. 1/4 lb. lb. 



Price $1.25 $3.50 $10.00 



IMPROVED PEARSON. Here is the leading shipping and canning 

 variety in California. Its popularity is spreading to other West- 

 ern States where similar growing conditions prevail. The fruits 

 are scarlet, of medium size, smooth, very thick skinned, and 

 ripen well at the stem end. Our strain is noted for its uni- 

 formity and productiveness. Growers say that it is making a big 

 hit with receivers because it ripens to a full red, like a home- 

 grown tomato. Season 1 00 days. 



oz. 1/4 lb. lb. 



Price $1.25 $4.00 $12.00 



MARGLOBE SPECIAL STRAIN. This is a stock which has been 

 specially grown and selected over a period of years. We believe 

 this strain is far superior to the ordinary stocks of Marglobe 

 being offered today. Season 75 days. 



oz. !/4 lb. lb. 



Price $2.00 $7.00 $25.00 



PONDEROSA. A large fruited late variety of unsuroassed flavor 

 and quality. Extensively used for home garden planting, and 01 

 recent years popular for roadside market because of its large 

 size and sweet flavor. The fruits are extra large, flattened, solid 

 and meaty, with small seed cells and purplish pink in color. 

 Season 85 days. oz> y A i|, lb. 



Price $1.50 $5.00 $14.00 



TOMATO-FIX. Simply spray tomato blossoms with Tomato Fix 

 and like magic nearly every blossom produces a large tomato, 

 many of them seedless. Grow more and meatier tomatoes than 

 you ever believed possible with Tomato Fix. 

 Price, 100 tablets, $1.00. (25 qts. spray.) 



PRITCHARD OR SCARLET TOPPER. An excellent early, wilt re- 

 sistant variety for local market or shipping. Plants sturdy, vigor- 

 ous, of self-topping or self-pruning habit, exceptionally produc- 

 tive over a long period. Fruits deep scarlet, uniform alobe 

 shaped, smooth, solid and of excellent quality. Season 75 days. 



ox. Va lb. lb. 



Price 90c $2.50 



57.00 



PRITCHARD OR SCARLET TOPPER, SPECIAL STRAIN. A special 

 reselected stock of this well known variety. Superior to the 

 ordinary stocks in uniformity, especially in size, shape of fruits 

 and heavy yield. Season 75 days. 0Z- 



Price $2.00 



RUTGERS. This variety developed by the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station produces a sturdy vigorous plant with thick 

 stem and an abundance of foliage which protects the fruits from 

 sun-scald The fruits are globe-shaped and resemble Marglobe in 

 appearance but ripen a few days earlier and are of a slightly 

 bnahter scarlet color. The flesh is firm, bright red throughout, 

 and of delicious flavor. Season 73 days. 



oz. Va IS. lb. 1 lbs. 



Price 90c $2.50 $6.75 $65.00 



STOKESDALE. Second early, scarlet fruited type, maturing about 

 a week earlier than Marglobe. The fruit is of medium size, 

 very uniform, smooth, deep globe shape, of fine quality. Fruits 

 ripen evenly and very free from cracks and blemishes. Recom- 

 mended for both canners and shippers, particularly where length 

 of growing season is less than average. Season 70 days. 



oi. Va lb. lb. 



Price 90c $2.50 $7.00 



VALIANT. This variety is well adapted to short season areas and 

 the early market. The fruits are large for an early variety, 

 firm, exceptionally uniform, smooth, and they color well. They 

 are a good deep globe shape, an attractive bright scarlet 

 color with solid meaty flesh. Heavy yields are produced early. 

 Season 70 days. 



oz. Va lb. lb. 



Price $1.00 $3.00 $9.00 



1951 CATALOG FOR MARKET GROWERS AND FLORISTS — PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



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