Plant Burrell’s High Altitude Grown Tomato Seed 
TOMATO 
One oz. of seed will produce 3,000 to 4,000 plants. Allow some 
for safety. Days given are from setting of plants to marketable 
fruits. 
Everyone who plants a garden should reserve a part of it for 
tomatoes so that the family can have a fresh supply during a long 
season. No other cultivated plant bears so long and so abundantly 
and no other fruit carries with it greater health bearing elements. 
Cultural Instructions 
For early fruit, the seed should be sown in a hotbed about the 
first week in March in drills five inches apart; one-half inch deep. 
Later sowings may be made until the last of April. Sufficient plants 
for a small garden 
can be started by 
sowing a few seeds 
in a shallow box and 
placing in a sunny 
window in the house. 
When the young 
plants are three to 
four inches high, 
these should be set 
4 to 5 inches apart 
in another hotbed or 
cold frame or trans¬ 
planted into small 
pots, allowing a sin¬ 
gle plant to a pot. 
Expose to the air as 
much as possible to 
harden them before 
planting out. Water 
freely at the time of 
transplanting into 
the open ground. 
Shelter from the sun 
a few days until the 
plants are thorough¬ 
ly established. Cul¬ 
tivate as long as the 
vines will permit. 
The last two or three 
workings of the soil 
should be very shal¬ 
low. 
If you wish information on the building and managing of hot¬ 
beds, let us know and we will send leaflet on this subject. 
Threshing- ami washing tomato seed on one 
of our farms. 
OUR TOMATO SEED 
The production of tomato seed for critical planters has 
had our very careful attention for many years and our selec¬ 
tions have given such good results that the demand is growing 
each year. 
Tomato seed grown here at an altitude of 4,000 feet is 
outstanding in earliness and hardiness. 
The soil, sunshine, and irrigation water supply the ele¬ 
ments needed to develop seeds of strong vitality, which being 
the plants in embryo grow on, producing mature plants re¬ 
taining this increased vitality and produce increased yields of 
high quality tomatoes. 
Of all the varieties we grow each year we select the plants 
producing the most abundant yields of the earliest, true to 
type fruits. 
This is used as stock seed from which our seed crops the 
following year are produced. 
Hothouse growers demand the best seed available because 
they cannot afford to risk failure by using ordinary seed. As 
a rule their tomatoes bring fancy prices, but to do this they 
must have fancy tomatoes. On page 81 you will find our Super 
Select grade of seed listed. This is the s.ame as the stock 
seed we plant for seed production. 
Our select or crown set seed is saved from the best of the 
first fruits to ripen. 
This is the class of seed you can well afford to plant and 
the cost is only a few cents more per thousand plants as an 
ounce produces about three thousand plants. 
Our standard tomato seed is grown from this same spe¬ 
cially selected planting stock but is saved from the general 
crop, hence it represents one year less of this special selection. 
This standard tomato seed is good and while we would always 
plant the better grade, the standard seed will give good results 
if growing conditions are favorable. 
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