BUJRBANK'S 1918 NEW CREATIONS IN SEEDS 
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We finished picking your vines September 30th and had a total for the 
season of 20,234 lbs 
On the same date from C. E. J. vines we had total 13^122 lbs! 
There were exactly the same number of vines in each patch. 
Your Tomato is certainly the Tomato for this section, where we have early 
frost. The color is good and the quality is good. We have saved seed from the 
earliest and choicest ones for next year and will plant a number of acres next year 
where we can test them more fully. 1 shall not be surprised to get even better 
results, as I have found that seeds produced in Colorado almost invariably give 
better results than those grown outside the State. Yours sincerely 
J. H. EMPSON. 
Several of the great packing firms of America now furnish the "Burbank" Tomato 
seed free to their growers. 
_ T Fort Bhagg, Cal., Dec. 11th, 1917. 
We found the "Burbank" Tomato exactly as represented. We had found only 
one variety of tomato that would pay here— the "Puget Sound Special." The "Bur- 
bank is just about six weeks earlier. F. A. B. 
While the "BUBBANK" Tomato ripens at Santa Bosa more than a week ahead 
of all other tomatoes, it may seem strange that it should ripen only a week earlier 
than the earliest Tomato in the Colorado climate, while in the San Francisco 
Bay Region it ripens six weeks earlier; the bright, clear sunshine of high alti- 
tudes forwards plants much more rapidly than when growing in the moist, cool 
air and low altitudes near the ocean. These facts only go to prove that the "Bur- 
bank" is the earliest everywhere. 
Burbank Tomato Seed — 1917 Selection 
Per packet of 100 seeds, 25c; three, 50c; ten packets, $1.25; ounce, $1.75. 
New Tomato— "Golden West" 
A large, smooth, productive golden yellow tomato of superior quality. 
Packet, 10c; ounce, 80c. 
New Tomato— "Santa Rosa" 
Enormous thick, smooth, rose colored fruits of superior quality. Most produc- 
tive general crop tomato, and especially valuable for home use. 
Packet, 25c; ounce, $1. 
Tomato —"Matchless" 
The fine old Standard Canning tomato. Uniform, large, rich, cardinal red, pro- 
ductive; select stock. Packet, 10c; ounce, 30c. 
New Giant White Seeded Sunflower— "Manteca" 
In 1909 sunflower seed was grown in the United States to the amount of 
63,677 bushels. Last season there was shipped out of one California town by 
one buyer, 1275 Tons, for which $76,000 was paid to the growers. Sunflower 
seed is used for feed and for oil. All sunflower seed has heretofore been black, 
brown, or striped. "Manteca" was produced on my place several years ago 
by crossing the well known Black seeded double California sunflower with the 
Giant Russian, which has black striped seeds. The result was, after many years 
of careful selection, "MANTECA," which is a greatly improved PURE WHITE 
SEEDED Giant Russian, which produces enormous single heads on short stalks, 
instead of the usual big and little mongrel heads on tall, unsightly stalks so gen- 
erally grown. No grower of any other kind can ever compete with this produc- 
tive Snow White variety. It will transform the business as the Burbank Potato 
has transformed the potato business. 
Packet, 15c; ounce plump seeds, 25c; pound, $1; five pounds, $4. 
