Figure 6 —Washing the Bagged Seed —The day after 
cutting, the seed in the small bags is washed. Note the 
small waterproof tags used to identify each strain. 
Figure 8 —Emptying the Seed —Note the carefully 
marked envelopes used for each strain. Many hundreds 
of these are used each year. 
Stock seed for planting our fields of certified tomatoes 
comes from the fruit from the best plant selections tested 
the previous year. In this way we always have stock seed 
we can depend upon, seed tested the year previous to 
planting. 
Figure 7—Drying the Seed — 
After washing, each lot is hung up 
to dry. 
