SOUTHERN-GROWN PLANTS ■ An Enormously 

 Important Factor in the Tomato Industry 



I AST year our Company handled approximately 20 carloads of Georgia-grown Tomato plants. Our experience 

 j with them was more satisfactory than ever before. We consider the Southern-grown plants not only an im- 

 portant factor to Tomato growers in the North, but we look on them as having passed the experimental stage. 

 If you have lingering doubts about their importance, we assure you that you can now accept them as having come 

 of age. Their success is based on a stronger plant costing less money. 



The Georgia plant-certification system is one of the most effective sanitation jobs we have known. It covers 

 soil practice, certification of seed, spraying, and packing. 



The seed must not only be certified by the state of origin, but must pass a biological test for freedom from 

 pathogenic organisms. The present disinfectant, New Improved Ceresan, has proved far more effective than the 

 bichloride of mercury treatment in use up until last year. This new ethyl mercury phosphate has almost completely 

 controlled the dreaded Macrosporium solatium, or stem-rot disease, which formerly took a heavy toll. 



The following letter, from Athens, Ga., dated November 12, 1938, we consider significant. These 40 samples 

 of Tomato seed were disinfected in the process illustrated on page 5. 



Dear Mr. Stokes: 



I am inclosing attached reports on 40 samples of Tomato seed you sent me for tests. 



All of these are very well disinfected and the few organisms, such as Penicillium, Yeast, and Aspergillus, are secondary sapro- 

 phytes. There were only a few cases of Macrosporium or Bacterium vesicatorium. These are the cleanest seed you have ever sent here. 



In regard to the germination, most of the samples ran 90 per cent or better, but four or five, as you will see, germinated rather 

 low, and if you think there might have been some slip in the sample, I will be glad to run germination tests again on them. 



Very truly yours, 



JULIAN H. MILLER, Plant Pathologist. 



Our Contribution to 

 American Tomato 

 Varieties 



Atlantic Prize 1889 



Sparks' Earliana 1900 i 



Bonny Best 1908 



Master Mar9lc.be 1930 



Stokesdale 1936 4flKfttf£ vfe^^ft/lJfr fl/VT^M '* 



Stokes Tomato Plants 

 are packed 100 to the 

 bundle and there are usu- 

 ally 5 bundles to the % 

 basket. They are packed 

 in damp moss and remain 

 fresh and strong. 



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This photograph was 

 taken two hours after the 

 arrival of the car shown 

 on the opposite page, 

 shipped from Georgia 

 May 7, arriving in Mt. 

 Holly, N. J., May 9, 1938. 



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