GURNEY’S NORTHERN GROWN TOMATOES 
• EARL1BELL 
TOMATO SELECTION 
WE ARE 
PROUD OF OUR 
NORTHERN GROWN 
TOMATO SEED 
Plant Earlibell and 
Bison and Have 
TOMATOES 
10 DAYS EARLIER 
• 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; 
y 2 oz., 20c; 1 oz., 30c; 14 !b., 80c; 1 lb., $2.25; 
5 lbs., $9.25. Postpaid. 
• NEW STONE 
The tomato for a main crop. We call this the 
king of the Livingstone kinds, which are the 
best types of large, smooth, solid “beefy” toma¬ 
toes. 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; y 2 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 14 lb., 60c; 1 lb., 
$1.55; 5 lbs., $6.50 Postpaid. 
• 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; 14 lb., $1.25; 
1 lb., $4.25. 
The House of Gurney, Yankton, S. D. Rushville, Neb., May 11, 1935 
Gentlemen: 
You enclosed a packet of Earlibell tomato seed with my order and it certainly did fine. I 
sowed them in the garden and although it was late in the season they ripened first of all. Thanks. 
Sincerely yours, Mrs. Chas. Grossenbocher, Rushville, Neb. 
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 tomato than the Earlibell. I re¬ 
ceived a letter from one of our Texas cus¬ 
tomers one day, ordering 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 tomato 
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 ear¬ 
lier than, a number of varieties that are claimed 
to be extra early. The Earlibell 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; 
14 lb., 90c; 1 lb., $2.85; 5 lbs., $12.50 Postpaid. 
Tomatoes from Gurney's seed 
• SCARLET TOPPER OR PRITCHARD 
{ See Colored Picture 1 
on Page 7 Jf" 
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; 
'/ 2 oz., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; J4 lb., 75c; 1 lb., $2.15; 
5 lbs., $7.75 Postpaid. 
• 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. 
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 fiat. Package, 6c; y 2 oz., 
20c; 1 oz., 35c; 14 lb., $1.00; 1 lb., $3.45 
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., 7c; y 2 oz., 20c; 1 oz., 
35c; 14 lb., $1.15; 1 lb., $3.55. 
One pkt. to 100 feet of row— y 2 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 the Gurney 
Quality, which means the very best product. 
There are no better strains of any of the 
varieties that we are offering, and the con¬ 
stantly increasing demand for Gurney Tomato 
Seed proves that we are furnishing seed that 
produces the best quality, smoothest and best 
shipping of any. 
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