Burgess’ Choice Tomato Seed 
Every season sees a big increase in the demand for our Tomato seed. Our climatic conditions are conducive to freedom from 
disease, to the production of fruit instead of vine, and to early maturity. Our strains keep these tendencies to a marked de¬ 
gree when planted elsewhere. A trial will convince you of the superiority of our Tomato seed. 
One ounce of seed will produce about 2,000 plants. 
COLOSSAL 
the Largest Tomato Grown 
This is the largest of all Tomatoes, being even larger 
than the famous Ponderosa. Many planters, in different 
parts of the country have grown Colossal Tomatoes 
weighing over 3 lbs., and some more than 4 lbs. Not 
only does the Colossal produce giant fruits, but it pro¬ 
duces them in abundance. One planter in Illinois raised 
over a ton of Tomatoes from 186 plants. The very thick, 
meaty flesh, few seeds, and mild flavor combine to give 
the Colossal a quality on a par with its immense size. 
Unsurpassed for slicing or canning. Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 
50c; % oz.. 40c; oz., 75c; % lb., $2.50, postpaid. 
YELLOW COLOSSAL 
Tomato ; just like 
Colossal except in color, which is a beautiful golden 
yellow. Pkt., 20c; 3 pkts., 50c; % oz., 40c; oz., 75c; 
% lb., $2.50, postpaid. 
Colossal 
BEEFSTEAK 
Largest of all 
bright red toma¬ 
toes ; nearly as large as Ponderosa; 
solid, meaty fruits which will cut into 
thick ruby slices of unsurpassed flavor 
and quality. Many of our customers 
who have tried it report it to be the 
most delicious Tomato they have ever 
eaten. Pkt., 10c; V 2 oz., 30c; oz., 55c; 
Vi lb., $1.75; lb., $6.00; 2 lbs., $10.80; 
5 lbs., $25.50, postpaid. 
GOLDEN QUEEN 
The leading yellow Tomato. Many 
consider it of better flavor than any of 
the red varieties, and it is less acid. 
Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; % lb., $1.20; lb., 
$4.00; 2 lbs., $7.20; 5 lbs., $17.00, post¬ 
paid. 
Giant Oxheart 
Tomato 
Burgess’ Earliest and Best 
The Earliest and Best Tomato on Earth 
Burgess’ Earliest and Best Tomato is the earliest and best variety grown. 
Not only will it produce large, beautiful solid shipping Tomatoes earlier than 
any other variety, but it produces the most perfect High Crown Tomatoes ever 
grown, and entirely free from core. No cripples, no scalds, no blight, no 
cracked, no wrinkled, no one-sided, uneven, scarred fruit, and when dead ripe 
they will noj; burst. 
Not only is it the most beautiful bright red Tomato you ever saw, but it also 
has the finest flavor. 
A marvelous stem setter; often ten fruits in first cluster, all solid and meaty, 
and with fewer seeds than most varieties. 
It has just enough foliage—will stand plenty of manuring without going to vine. 
It is the most perfect shipping Tomato ever grown. 
Being such a tremendous yielder, it can be gathered in one-half the time of any 
other Tomato, and peelers can prepare three bushels to one bushel of any other 
variety. 
Just think of it! A Tomato earlier than Earliana and better than Stone. It is 
of the John Baer type, and might be termed an extra-early improved strain of 
that variety. On our Michigan seed farms it ripens fully two weeks earlier than , 
the much advertised Burbank Tomato, and so much better that for quality there 
is no comparison. Pkt., 10c; 3 pkts., 25c; oz., 45c; % lb., $1.50; lb., $5.00; 
2 lbs., $9.00; 5 lbs., $21.25, postpaid. 
Giant 
EARLIANA 
The most pop¬ 
ular extra- 
early Tomato. Yields wdll; fruit 
bright red, solid and of fine quality. > 
Our strain of this variety is ex-- 
tremely early and is much superior 
to seed produced farther South. 
Pkt., 8c; oz., 30c; % lb., 90c; lb., 
$3.00; 2 lbs., $5.40; 5 lbs., $12.00. 
postpaid. 
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Oxheart is truly a giant among 
tomatoes. It is smooth, thick, ten¬ 
der and almost seedless; frequently 
showing two inches thick without a 
seed cavity. Three pound specimens 
are quite common. A pink tomato 
with a delicious mild flavor that 
every lover of this fruit likes. For 
quality it is unexcelled, and, as it 
becomes better known, it is sure to 
be one of the most popular tomatoes. 
yet introduced. Pkt., 15c; 2 pkts., ! 
25c; y 2 oz., 40c; oz., 70c; % lb., 
$2.35; lb., $8.50, postpaid. 
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