RUTGERS 



Main Crop — Large — Vigorous — Productive 



RUTGERS is rapidly establishing an important place in the industry. 

 _ Although it was originally intended as a cannery type /'Campbell 

 Soup Company made the original Marglobe X J- T. D. cross^, Prof. L. G. 

 Schermerhorn of the New Jersey Experiment Station has worked hard and 

 long to refine it to a shipping Tomato as well. Considerable success 

 has attended this effort. 



The remarkable fact about Rutgers is its vigorous plant. Its central stalk 

 is so strong and tall that the entire structure has the ability to withstand 

 adverse weather better than any other variety we know. The next important 

 quality is the large size of its fruit. This is of the solid, thick-wall type de- 

 manded in modern Tomatoes. Its color is notoriously fine. 



Rutgers requires special handling in its feeding. Care should be taken 

 to withhold nitrogen at least for six weeks after setting in the field. An 

 oversupply of nitrogen will retard maturity, develop large, ill-shaped fruit, 

 and materially lower production. Reports on Rutgers have not been favor- 

 able from all districts, but where conditions suit, it performs favorably. We 

 are doing our part to develop a refinement of fruit type that will make it 

 more profitable as a market and shipping Tomato. 



Price, postpaid: Trade pUt. 25 cts.; oz. 50 els.; 1 ilb. $1.50; lb. $5; 



5 lbs. $22.50. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Paired with Rutgers, your Stokesdale makes a most satisfactory combination for any truck farmer. Of 

 course, Master Marglobe, in my estimation, is a superior shipping Tomato, although 1 can see no reason 

 for any farmer wanting a finer strain of Tomato than your Stokesdale. Most hands of your Stokesdale 

 developed several Tomatoes of over 3-inch diameter — truly a wonderful sight to any truck farmer. — 

 E. H. 8., Bloomsburg. 



MICHIGAN 



We are very well pleased with our crop of Tomatoes, the seed of which was purchased from your seed- 

 house. Valiant produced a heavy crop of Tomatoes, as did the Strain Six of Stokes Master Marglobe and 

 the Rutgers. This is October 24 and we are still able to pick perfect Tomatoes. We have built up a fine 

 trade for such good produce. You may feel assured that you will receive our Tomato seed order for 

 1939.— W. H. D., Milan. 



F. C. Stokes and Prof. L. G. Schermerhorn 

 on our Stokesdale Proving Grounds the after- 

 noon of our Field Day, August 17, 1937. 



MARYLAND 



Your seed proved very satisfactory for me 

 this year. The Master Marglobe and Rutgers 

 produced excellent fruit. I was very well 

 pleased with the results, both in quality and 

 production. — R. B., Westover. 



Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Luttrell, Berkeley Springs, W. Va., with the prize-winning package of the Tomato 



Festival— a basket of Rutgers Photograph by Henry Ruppentha/, Jr 



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