LOW’Sj CATALOGUE t OE SPECIALTIES. 
Low’s Superior Essex Hybrid Tomato. 
(An exact copy from a photograph of the Tomato.) 
For general excellence, and in combining all the desirable and essential qualities of a superior tomato, the “ Essex 
Hybrid” exceeds all known varieties. In fact, for general cultivation, with the exception of the “ Perfection ” and 
“Cardinal ” varieties, there is nothing approaches it. I introduced it in 1878 with a thorough knowledge of its many 
virtues, and a firm belief in its future destiny and popularity. Its intrinsic merits have earned it a reputation to 
which it would be difficult to add, and have extended and spread its cultivation to proportions almost incredible 
when compared with other varieties. Its excelling features are earliness, great productiveness and beauty, in color 
and form, of its fruit ; further than this, it possesses more of the necessary qualities of a perfect tomato than any 
other sort kuown. 
It will bear more marketable fruit than any other variety in cultivation. 
It is very early, solid and rich flavored. 
It is enormously productive, growing large in size and perfectly smooth and uniform in shape. 
Its attractive beauty invites custom and creates a demand for it in all markets. 
It will command a good price, even when the market is cramped with other sorts. 
-t has sold for double the price of other kinds in certain places. 
It is of remarkable vigor and healthy growth, and fruits evenly on the vines. It ripens uniformly, leaving *.u 
green spots about the stem, and rarely cracking, its flesh is extremely firm and solid, thus adapting it for shipment 
to distant markets without trouble. 
Its keeping qualities are far superior to any we have tested, and we have kept perfect fruits until October 25th, 
which, in this latitude, is exceptional. No gardener should omit testing this sort, thereby proving its worth. 
Numerous congratulations and expressions of satisfaction are constantly received, and they fully endorse my 
claims and add further testimony in its favor. I have received many letters, unsolicited, from parties having nothing 
to gain or lose by the fact, speaking in praise and favor of its goodness, and placing it, in their estimation, ahead of 
all competitors ; thus it stands foremost in the rank of our list of “ Good Things,” and brings profit to the pockets of 
both the grower and dealer. 
The superiority of this excellent tomato has, as a natural consequenee, induced unscrupulous parties to substitute 
other and inferior varieties, in which case the purchasers may have been disappointed in the results such seed has 
given them. To avoid such imposition and loss to both my customers and myself, and m order that the character 
and reputation of the tomato itself may remain unimpeached in public estimation, which is but just, I would urge 
buying seed direct from me ; in which case customers may rely upon receiving the genuine article, and need fear nc 
substitution of other sorts. Being the originator of it, my customers will readily see it is very important, and for our 
mutual interest that 1 should preserve the seed in purity, and up to the highest standard. Price per pkt., jo ts. ; 
per 1-2 oz., 20 cts. j per oz.. 2? cts.f per 1-4 Hv.$i.oo; per lb., £3.50. 
