1935 SPRING AND FALL THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. ^ YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 
Earlibell Tomato Selection 
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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. Try it. Pkt., 10c; 
y 2 oz., 25c; 1 oz., 40c; Za, lb., $1.00; 1 lb., 
$3.10; 5 lbs., $14.00. 
Gurney’s New Dwarf Giant 
Tomato 
The largest purple dwarf tree tomato. (Pur¬ 
ple crimson.) Dwarf Giant is the largest fruited 
Bison, the Tomato 
for Northern Gardens 
The best early tomato yet developed by 
Professor A. F. Yeager. In place of wasting 
its vitality in continuous branching, as do prac¬ 
tically all other tomatoes, Bison grows a com¬ 
pact plant and puts all its energies into 
producing and ripening a heavy and extra 
early crop of smooth, solid, meaty, medium 
sized red tomatoes. In 1930 Professor Yeager 
had a plant in his plot that produced 40 pounds 
of ripe fruit. Do not prune Bison plants. We 
believe this is the best thing that Professor 
Yeager has developed to date and that is say¬ 
ing a lot. 
Pkt., 8c; y 2 oz., 25c; 1 oz., 45c; !4 lb., $1.35; 
1 lb., $4.75. 
TOMATOES—(Continued) 
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., 25c; 1 oz., 40c; J4 lb., $1.30; 
1 lb., $4.60. 
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 o‘ne 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 
scarlet color meat, and slightly flat. Package 
6c; 'A oz., 20c; 1 oz., 35c; 14 lb., $1.00; 1 lb., 
$3.10. 
New Stone 
The tomato for a main crop. Choicest seed- 
We call this the king of the Livingstone kinds, 
wjhich 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; A oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 'A lb., 
65c; 1 lb., $1.70; 5 lbs., $7.00. 
John Baer 
Extra early red. 
Not quite so early 
as Earlfana, though 
there is only a few 
days’ difference, 
John Baer yields a 
much heavier crop 
of larger, more uni¬ 
form and more at¬ 
tractive fruits. 
Most profitable ex¬ 
tra early sort. Pkt., 
5c; 'A oz., 20c; 
1 oz., 35c; 'A lb., 
85c; 1 lb., $2.45. 
Marglobe 
Tomato 
Marglobe is a 
second-early, red- 
fruited variety 
equally suitable for 
trucking or can¬ 
ning. 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 commercial trials in the Miami- 
Homestead section of Florida last winter because 
of its freedom from nailhead rust and puffiness 
and the production 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 condi¬ 
tions are favorable produce a heavy crop of 
fruit. Large yields of excellent fruit have been 
reported from nearly every region where this 
variety has been tried. Pkt., 6c; 'A oz., 20c; 
1 oz., 30c; |4 lb., 75c; 1 lb., $2.25; 5 lbs., $10.25. 
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., 6c; 
i/ 2 oz., 20c; 1 oz., 30c; 14 lb., 80c; 1 lb., $2.25; 
5 lbs., $10.25. 
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., 7c; A oz., 25c; 1 oz., 40c; 14 lb., $1.30; 
1 lb., $4.60. 
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: 
A oz., 20c; 1 oz., 30c; 14 lb., 75c; 1 lb., $2.10; 
5 lbs., $9.25. 
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; Vz oz., 
20c; 1 oz., 45c; & lb., $1.30; 1 lb., $4.60. 
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