JEROME B. RICE SEED COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE, N. Y. 
Marglobe 
Beauty. A productive main crop variety, with large, 
smooth, solid, purplish-pink fruit. 
Bonny Best. A very desirable early, red fruited 
variety, largely grown for market and extensively 
used as a forcing sort. 
Crimson Cushion (Beefsteak). The largest of the 
bright red tomatoes and desirable for the home 
garden; really a Red Ponderosa. 
Chalk’s Jewel. An exceptionally fine early variety, 
following Earliana; fruit uniformly smooth, round 
and solid; very productive. 
Dwarf Champion. Of a distinctly dwarf, compact, 
upright growth; fruits smooth, pink in color. 
TOMATO — Continued 
Dwarf Stone. The best of the dwarf tomatoes; 
fruits large, smooth, very solid and of a deep 
scarlet color; desirable for home garden. 
Early Detroit. A very fine, early, large fruited 
variety, largely grown in the South for early 
northern markets; fruits nearly globe shaped, 
smooth and solid; color purplish-pink. 
Golden Queen. An early, large, smooth and 
solid variety of golden yellow color. 
Greater Baltimore. A main crop, round, pro¬ 
ductive, red fruited variety; one of the best for 
canning. 
Gulf State Market. A globe shaped selection 
from Early Detroit, retaining the charac¬ 
teristics and good qualities of that variety, 
but is more globe shaped and productive; a 
favorite in the South. 
John Baer. A very early, productive, uniform, 
red tomato quite similar to Chalk’s Jewel. 
Marglobe. An excellent, disease resistant large 
red tomato, maturing slightly earlier than 
Stone. 
Matchless. A dependable, large, second early 
variety; a favorite canning sort. 
Pritchard or Scarlet Topper. A mid-season scarlet 
fruited variety resistant to Fusarium Wilt and Nail 
Head Rust. Fruits nearly globular in form. Vine 
vigorous and very productive. 
Red Rock. A selection from Matchless, but is more 
round or globe shaped than that variety. 
Royal Purple. An improved type of Beauty, being 
more uniform, smooth and productive. 
Stone. The standard and general favorite main crop 
red tomato and always dependable. 
We can also supply Red and Yellow Cherry, Yellow 
Plum, Yellow Pear, and Strawberry or Husk. 
RUTA BAGA 
OR SWEDISH TURNIP 
Culture .— Should be sown from the 20th of June to 
the middle of July in drills 2 feet apart, and thinned 
out at the first working to 10 inches between the plants. 
The roots are best preserved in a pit or cellar during 
winter, and are excellent early in spring. 
One ounce will sow 250 feet of drill; 
\]/2 pounds will sow an acre 
American Purple Top. More largely grown in America 
than other ruta bagas and is also known as Long 
Island Purple Top. A very fine, productive strain, 
selected to a small top and short neck. The roots 
grow to a large size, globular in form, with deep 
yellow flesh of the finest quality. Considered the 
most desirable for table use. 
Budlong White Rock (Breadstone). An American 
variety; very early, round and pure white. 
Golden Neckless. Noted for its small neck; almost 
globular, of large size; flesh yellow and solid. 
Skirving’s Purple Top. This variety grows to a very 
large size and is noted for its excellent quality; flesh 
deep yellow. 
White Sweet Russian. Best of the white fleshed ruta 
bagas; roots very large, nearly globe shaped, with a 
small neck; an excellent keeper. 
Golden Neckless 
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