TOMATO 
All our tomato seed is grown from stocks raised strictly for seed pur- 
poses and from seed stocks carefully selected. We challenge comparison 
of our stocks with any offered. 
f' 1 ! TT r p| TDIT Tomatoes do best on a light, warm, not over rich soil, 
anc j success depends upon securing a rapid vigorous and 
unchecked growth during the early part of the season. Sow in hot beds from six to eight weeks before they can be set out of 
doors, which is when danger from frost is past. When the plants have four leaves transplant into shallow boxes or cold frames, 
setting them 4 or 5 incehs apart. Give plenty of air, and endeavor to secure a vigorous, but steady and healthy growth, so that at 
the time of setting in the open ground they will be strong and stocky. Even a slight check while the plants are small will 
materially diminish their productiveness. Set out of doors as soon as danger from frost is over, but before doing so, harden off 
the plants by gradually exposing them to the night air and by the withdrawal of water until the wood becomes hard, and the leaves 
thick and of a dark green color. Transplant carefully, and cultivate well as long as the vines will permit. The fruit is improved in 
quality if the vines are tied to a trellis or to stakes. 
nf-vr We have been selecting this for a larger, 
UCClULjr smoother fruit than the original stock, 
and think we have made it the Smoothest and Best of the 
Large Purple Sorts. Vines large, vigorous and heavy 
bearers; fruit large, uniform in size, very smooth, color 
of skin purplish-pink; flesh light pink and of excellent 
flavor. While we think the color weak for canning, it 
is used considerably for that purpose. 
Chalk’s Early Jewel 
tomato of large size 
and finest quality and flavor, maturing a few days after 
Earliana and June Pink. While the fruit begins to mature 
very early for so large a tomato, the vines are vigorous 
and will give a succession of pickings extending over a 
long season. Very desirable either for the market 
gardener or for home use. 
Dwarf Champion SJUirtn “ 
stout, strong plants about 2 feet high. The branches 
are short, makes a bushy plant that stands quite erect 
without stakes, This sort is often sold as Tree Tomato. 
Fruit smooth, medium sized, color purplish-pink, fairly 
solid, but has no hard core, and is of good flavor. About 
as early as any purple fruited tomato, and is quite 
popular in some localities, both for market and home use. 
OpflYllI’ This s P'endid variety is the largest and best of the early purplish pink tomatoes. The vines are vigorous 
l-'Cll vll an( i ver y productive. The fruit is very smooth, uniform in size, nearly globe-shaped, firm and of 
excellent quality. Early Detroit is one of the most valuable shipping tomatoes yet produced. It is also desirable for the home 
garden and near markets. 
Improved Trophy 
The Trophy was the first of the modern 
improved sorts, and it had qualities of 
color, size and solidity which entitled 
it to hold a place against the much 
lauded new kinds; though all 
admitted it lacked in smooth- 
ness and regularity. By most 
careful breeding and selec- 
tion, therehasbeen developed 
a strain in which all the 
original good qualities are 
retained and even intensified, 
and which compares favora- 
ably with any in smoothness, 
regularity and symmetry of 
the fruit. We offer our Im- 
proved Trophy as a sort 
whose large, strong grow- 
ing, vigorous and productive 
vine and large, very solid, 
smooth, fine flavored and 
beautiful deep, rich red fruit, 
will satisfy the most exacting. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. 
Customers highly pleased 
with goods, say the best ever 
received from any seedsmen. 
I* W . YOUNG chalk’s early jewel 
Potter Co., Pa. 
Most of the seed pro- 
duced two plants each. It 
is the finest we ever had. 
Grant Acker. 
Golden Queen 
Fruit large, smooth and symmetrical; 
color a beautiful golden yellow, some- 
times with a slight blush of red, as 
smooth and well shaped as the best 
shaped red varieties and of 
superior flavor. 
JUNE PINK 
In the June Pink tomato 
we have a new purple-fruited 
variety, equal in vigor and 
earliness to our Scarlet Earli- 
ana, which has met with such 
favor. The fruit is large, 
smooth and of excellent 
quality, maturing extremely 
early. Many markets call 
for purple tomatoes and in 
the June Pink we are able 
to offer the earliest variety 
of this type ever originated. 
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