G. C. WATSON, PHILADELPHIA, TRADE LIST, SPRING, 
SELECT LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS FOR FORCING. 
The following select list of Vegetable Seeds represents the approved varieties in use by suc- 
cessful market growers for forcing, at the present time. The choicest strains only are 
offered, regardless of expense. A dollar in the price of the seed is of small importance when 
the success or failure of a crop is at stake. 
Eclipse Forcing Tomato. 
A variety of the highest merit; a free setter 
and producing a great profusion of attractive 
fruit of line, red color and high quality. 
Strongly recommended. Trade packet. .15. 
Mayflower Forcing Tomato. 
This well-known variety is hiclily recom- 
mended, especially for Spring Solving. Wat- 
son’s Extra Selected Strain. Packet, .15; yi 
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, 
• IS! J A ° 7 -. 40 ; 'A oz., .75; oz., $1.50. 
tlolmos’ Supreme Forcing. 
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. Original imported packets, 
• 25 . 
FROGMORE SELECTED FORCING TOMATO. 
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 this sort above all 
others. Packets, .25 and .50. 
Pepper’s Prolific Forcing Tomato. 
This new variety was raised by W. Robert- 
son, gardener to John W. Pepper, a wealthy 
Philadelphian, near Jenkintowq, 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 enorm- 
ous bearer, and of excellent quality. Somewhat 
irregular in shape. Trade packets, .25 and .50. 
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; Yi oz., .50; oz., $1.00. 
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. 
Bailey’s Forcing Book. 
A practical, up-to-date work, invaluable to 
those who grow or intend to grow vegetables 
under glass. Contains full instructions how to 
grow tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and other 
vegetables. C. J. Pennock says : “It would 
have saved us dollars and dollars if we could 
have had it a few years ago.” 266 pages, 88 il- 
lustrations. $1.00 post paid. 
