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BURBANK'S 1918 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
A New Pepper— The "Burbank" 
From Mexico some eight years ago, I received from my collector a giant sweet 
pepper of great size and line sweet flavor. From this I have developed the largest 
sweet pepper ever grown; fruits nine inches long and four inches through with 
a thick sweet meat have been grown, and when placed upon exhibition people 
could not believe they were peppers. At the great Panama-Pacific Exposition 
or at the recent Land Show no peppers one-half as large were exhibited. The 
plants are productive and as easily grown as any other. Now first offered. 
Packet, 25c; ounce, $2. 
The Earliest Tomato in the World— The "Bur bank" 
By far the earliest, smoothest, largest, mosl productive, and best of all early 
tomatoes; resists wilt and other tomato diseases better than most others. The 
"Burbank" is so much earlier than other tomatoes that from the seed of the 
tomatoes which ripened here in 
June, a second crop has been 
again and again grown and ri- 
pened the same season, some- 
thing probably never before 
known. This extreme earliness 
means millions of dollars to 
American tomato growers, as 
one-half the tomatoes grown in 
the United States are taken by 
frost instead of by the grower. 
Fruit, bright crimson; thick, 
smooth, firm, medium to large in 
size, superior quality, unusually 
heavy and continuous bearer 
throughout the season; fine 
keeper and shipper. The "Bur- 
bank" has one other unique and 
most remarkable quality which 
will be appreciated by those who 
burbank tomato fresh sliced tomatoes for the 
table. Unlike other tomatoes, the 
skin peels freely from the rich, firm flesh, even when fully ripe. 
Mr. J. H. Begier, one of the oldest and perhaps the most experienced, as well 
as one of the largest growers in the "Bay Begion," reports that he found the 
"BUBBANK" Tomato fully SIX WEEKS earlier than the tomatoes before grown 
in that region. 
The "BUBBANK" Tomato was very carefully tested last season by Mr. J. H. 
Empson, one of the best known and most extensive packers of extra fine goods 
in the United States; he writes as follows: 
Mr. Luther Burbank Longmont, Colorado, Nov. 7th, 1916. 
Santa Bosa, Calif. : 
Dear Mr. Burbank — I thought you might be interested to learn how your new 
Tomato came out in this section of the country. We planted the seed you sent us 
and grew just as many plants as we could from it. We planted that seed exactly 
the same day we planted seed from Chalk's Early Jewell, and we put them in the 
same field, in exactly the same kind of soil. 
We picked the first ripe tomatoes from your vines on the 19th day of August; 
from Chalk's Early Jewell on the 26th day of August. After that we picked toma- 
toes from each kind — your vines and the C. E. J. — every time the same date. 
On August 31st we had picked from your vines 7,663 lbs. 
From the C. E. J. vines 2,756 lbs. 
On September 12th we had picked from your vines 13,072 Ihs. 
From the C. E. J. vines 7 478 ] D s 
