G. C. WATSON, PHILADELPHIA, TRADE LIST, SPRING, 1902. 
Gardening Under 
Pepper’s Prolific Forcing Tomato. 
This new variety was raised by W. 
Robertson, gardener to John W. Pepper, a 
wealthy Philadelphian, near Jenkintown, Pa., 
and is pronounced by Mr. Gardner and 
other experts to be a valuable addition to the 
limited list of good forcing varieties. It will 
set better than any other variety during the 
dull winter months — an invaluable trait which 
will be fully appreciated by experienced 
growers. Fruit, scarlet; oblong, deep and 
solid. It is an enormous bearer, and of ex- 
cellent quality. (For further particulars, see 
pages 1 and 2). Trade packets, .25 and .50 
Mayflower Forcing Tomato. 
This well-known variety is highly recom- 
mended, especially for Spring Sowing. Wat- 
son’s Extra Selected Strain. Packet, .15; y 2 
oz., .25; oz., .50. 
Sutton’s Best of All Forcing Tomato. 
One of the very best for under glass culture- 
It sets very freely, and is an immense cropper, 
producing heavy bunches of fruit at short in- 
tervals all over the plant. The first cluster is 
borne very low' on the stem. Color, a deep 
scarlet; form, admirable, of good size, and the 
fruit very solid and producing very little seed. 
Watson’s Specially Selected Strain. Packet, 
-15; 'A ° 7 -. -4°; ^ oz. .75; oz. $1.50. 
Holmes’ Supreme Forcing Tomato. 
Received the highest award from the Royal 
Horticultural Society at Chiswick Tomato 
Trials, 1900. Round, scarlet, medium size, 
heavy cropper, succeeds best with good culture 
and liberal feeding. Originalimported packets, 
.25. 
Frogmore Selected Forcing Tomato. 
A free cropping, free setting, medium-sized 
variety, very uniform and smooth in outline, 
almost round in shape, solid and very firm; 
color, clear, bright scarlet, with very deep flesh 
and remarkably small seed space. Awarded a 
first-class certificate by the Royal Horticultural 
Society. Some of the large growers for the 
Metropolitan markets prefer tbis sort above all 
others. Original imported packets, .25 and 
• 5 °- 
Lorillard Forcing Tomato (True). 
When it can be got true this variety is still 
in the front rank. Watson’s strain is saved 
specially by the originator, John G. Gardner, 
and is guaranteed pure and true to type. 
Packet, .15; y 2 oz., 50; oz., $1.00. 
Eclipse Forcing Tomato. 
A variety of the highest merit; a free setter 
and producing a great profusion of attractive 
fruit of fine, red color and high quality. 
Strongly recommended. Trade packet, .15. 
Stirling Castle Tomato. 
A new, round tomato, producing a large 
quantity of finely-flavored and richly- colored 
fruit of medium size. Claimed by some to be 
the finest variety for forcing ever offered. A 
free setter and heavy bearer of large clusters of 
tomatoes. Trade packet, .25. 
Glass — Continued. 
pepper’s prolific tomato. 
( Photograph of sing If plant , Nov. 25th , 1901. See affi- 
davit, page /). 
Pepper's Prolific Tomato. 
(Extracts from article by John G. Gardner in American 
Florist, August, 1900.) 
“Being interested in tomatoes and the forcing of 
fruits and vegetables in general, I went to see Pepper’s 
Prolific 'i omato and compare it at its borne with speci- 
mens I had seen at George C. Watson’s store in Phila- 
delphia. * I11 regard to this tomato I must say 
that it was a pleasant surprise to see the well-grown 
and trained plants loaded with immense bunches of 
bright red fruit. It is the most prolific bearer I have 
ever seen. The bunches each had from eight to six- 
teen well-developed fruits about 2 by 2V2 inches in size, 
a beautiful color, excellent flavor, flesh firm and with 
no hard core. In 1888 I raised ‘The Uorillard,’ the best 
forcing seedling obtained from six years of crossing. It 
was a cross of Perfection and Acme. I only wish I 
could have had Pepper’s Prolific then, as I feel sure it 
can be used as a parent to produce my ideal tomato for 
forcing— a tomato of perfect shape which will set fruit 
in December, January and February, the bad months in 
tomato forcing, owing to poor sunlight. Mr. Robertson 
assured me that this new variety sets fruit freely at this 
trying season. * * (The Pepper’s Prolific is not yet 
p-rfect in shape, and is a little under size, but in other 
respects it is Mr. Gardner’s ideal in a forcing tomato.) 
