1934 SPRING AND FALL ^ THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. -<}>- yankton, south Dakota 
TOMATOES 
O NE PKT. to 100 feet of row —'A pound to the acre. It is not how cheap 
we can furnish you Tomato Seed, but how good. In buying Tomato 
Seed from us you are getting tlie Gurney Quality, which means the very 
best product. 
There are no better strains of any of the varieties that we are offering, and 
the constantly increasing demand for Gurney Tomato Seed proves that 
we are furnishing seed that produces the best quality, smoothest and best 
shipping of any. 
Earlibell Tomato Selection 
See colored picture on inside front cover. 
We are still waiting for someone to prove to us 
that they have or can produce an earlier to¬ 
mato than the Earlibell. I received a letter 
from one of our Texas customers one day, order¬ 
ing six pounds of this Earlibell seed. He told 
me that he can get 25 per cent more fruit to the 
acre and ten days earlier than any other to¬ 
mato grown in the market garden section of 
Texas. This ten days means sometimes several 
cents per pound additional for their big crop. 
In the North it means ten days more of tomato 
season, freedom from frosts, etc. It means that 
we can produce tomatoes further north and at 
higher altitudes than ever before. We grow in 
the Trial Ground, practically every variety of 
claimed early tomatoes. The method adopted 
is as follows: 
On the first day of June we plant in the 
open ground the seed of all of the varieties and 
as they grow make records of the growth, the 
time of blooming and the first ripe tomatoes. 
The Earlibell is always just five days ahead 
of the next earliest, and running about as much 
as twenty days earlier than a number of varieties 
that are claimed to be extra early. The Earli¬ 
bell is not only earlier but it produces greater 
quantities of fruit with enough foliage to keep 
them free from sunburn, seldom rots, generally 
good-sized, smooth and of a bright red color 
that makes it very desirable for market as well 
as for the home table. We have found that the 
Earlibell is also one of the best tomatoes for 
greenhouse forcing. It requires a little more 
trimming than some other varieties but pro¬ 
duces quantities of good marketable fruit. 
Try it. Pkt., 10c; 'A oz., 20c; I oz., 30c; 'A lb., 
80c; 1 lb., $2.00; 5 lbs., $7.85. 
Red River Special 
Claimed by some to be as early as the Earli¬ 
bell. Our tests show them to mature_ at ap¬ 
proximately the same time. Anyway, it is one of 
the earliest tomatoes and has proven one of the 
hardiest, very solid and meaty. The Canadian 
experiment station at Morden, Manitoba, proved 
it to be the heaviest yielder out of 49 varieties. 
The Minnesota experiment station, and the New 
York station, reported it as the best early 
variety. It is a cross between one of the older 
varieties and one of Professor Yeager’s newer 
varieties. Fruit is small medium size, bright 
scailet color meat, and slightly fiat. Package 
7c; 'A oz., 20c; 1 oz., 35c; !4 lb., $1.00; 1 lb., 
$3.25. 
Red River Special 
Gurney’s Giant Canner—The true stock of 
this variety outyields any other tomato, and on 
account of its solid meat and small seed cavity 
we call it the best for home or factory canning. 
Fruit very smooth, firm, solid meat and one of 
the best for shipping, colors up well while firm 
and before thoroughly ripe. This makes it extra 
desirable as shipping tomato. On account of its 
immense size and its smooth shape it always 
commands the highest price. Pkt., 8c; 14 oz., 
20c; 1 oz., 35c; 14 lb., $1.00; 1 lb., $3.25. 
Scarlet Topper or Pritchard 
Scarlet Topper or 
Pritchard 
An extra-early, large, smooth, and extremely 
solid Tomato of an intense scarlet color. Most 
productive and very attractive. Of a solidity 
that is truly remarkable, 'with very small seed 
pockets and no core. Its productiveness, par¬ 
ticularly on rich soil, is amazing and individual 
plants will bear 70 to 80 fruits each. It will 
yield 15 tons and more per acre. Pkt., 5c; 
F 2 oz., 20c; 1 oz., 30c; 14 lb., 80c; 1 Ib., $2.25; 
5 lbs., $8.25. 
Ponderosa 
(Or Beefsteak)—This is the largest of the 
tomatoes. Often producing fruit weighing two 
pounds or more. Very bright red, generally 
smooth, fine vigorous growers, producing large 
crops of this immense fruit; quality, very good. 
Pkt., 8c; >A oz., 20c; 1 oz., 35c; )4 lb., $1.20; 
1 lb., $3.75. 
Earliana 
The earliest, large, smooth red tomato. This 
tomato is not only remarkable for its earliness, 
but for its very large size, handsome shape and 
bright red color. Its solidity and fine quality are 
quite equal to the best medium, and late sorts. 
Enormously prolific. The very finest for the 
northern market and home garden. Pkt., 5c; 
oz., 25c; 14 lb., 60c; lb., $1.80; 5 lbs., $7..50. 
Marglobe Tomato 
Marglobe is a second-early, red-fruited va¬ 
riety equally suitable for trucking or canning. 
It is as early as Bonny Best and produces large, 
smooth, meaty, globular, red fruits, which ripen 
uniformly and are relatively free from cracks. 
It attracted much favorable comment in com¬ 
mercial trials in the Miami-Homestead section 
of Florida last winter because of its freedom 
from nailhead rust and puffiness and the pro¬ 
duction of from 20 to 50 per cent more fruit than 
Globe, the variety commonly used there. The 
Marglobe fruits are very meaty and though 
early, ripen slowly, and therefore ship and keep 
well. Owing to their shape, solidity, color, and 
uniform ripening qualities, they make a splendid 
canned product and first-class pulp. The vines 
set fruit freely even to the ends of the branches, 
and where growth conditions are favorable pro¬ 
duce a heavy crop of fruit. Large yields of e.x- 
cellent fruit have been reported from nearly 
every region where this variety has been tried. 
Pkt., 5c; 'A oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 14 lb., 65c; 
1 lb., $1.75; 5 lbs., .$7.25. 
Gurney’s New Dwarf Giant 
Tomato 
The largest purple dwarf tree tomato. (Pur¬ 
ple crimson.) Dwarf Giant is the largest fruited 
of all dwarf tomatoes; the fruits are truly gigan¬ 
tic in size, and are uniformly large throughout 
the season. The color is a rich purple crimson, 
and the depth of color is maintained throughout 
the entire fruit. Dwarf Giant is of uniformly 
compact and bush-like growth. Growing 2 feet 
high and well branched, are very strong and 
vigorous. The thick stalks carry well the tre¬ 
mendous weight of fruits, which are produced in 
clusters of 4 to 6, and weigh 10 to 20 ounces each. 
Pkt., 8c; 'A oz., 20c; 1 oz., 35c; 14 lb., $1.20; 
1 lb., $4.00. 
New Stone 
The tomato for a main crop. Choicest seed. 
We call this the king of the Livingstone kinds, 
which are the best types of large, smooth, solid 
“beefy” tomatoes. If asked to select one main 
crop, market sort, we advise this. Color, fine 
scarlet; stem set high, core small and shallow, so 
that but little is lost when it is taken out of the 
fruit before slicing. If in doubt, buy the New 
Stone. Pkt., 5c;-14 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 14 lb., 
60c; 1 lb., $1.70; 5 lbs., $7.00. 
New .Stone Tomato 
Seeds Shipped within Twenty-Jour Hours After Order Is Received 
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