DESCRIPTIONS OF LANDRETHS’ CROWN PICKED 
CERTIFIED AND CERTIFIED TOMATO VARIETIES 
The demand for Crown Picked Certified Tomato Seed has been so great that 
we have previously been unable to fill the orders for it. We now have crown picked 
seed of all the certified tomato varieties listed above. For crown picked seed, only 
the first or crown clusters of fruits are used. Some growers claim that crown 
picked seed is plumper and therefore produces earlier fruits the following year than 
the seed from later pickings. Separate descriptions of the crown picked certified 
tomato varieties are not necessary since those describing the certified stocks will 
suffice for both. 
BONNY BEST (KOSHARA STRAIN) 
This is a special early strain grown by an old successful market gardener on 
Long Island. We have been improving this for seven years. The fruits are globular 
when small, becoming slightly flattened as they mature. A good yield may be 
obtained where this type can be grown successfully. 
BREAK O’DAY 
An early maturing variety with large globular fruits. Not recommended for 
light or sandy soil because the fruits do not show good red color under these 
conditions. Break O’Day has been very successful in some parts of the West. It 
may be just the variety you are looking for. 
BROWN’S SPECIAL 
A new, late variety of considerable merit for canning, and especially suited 
for Delaware, Maryland, and the South. The stems of the plants are long, and 
the leaflets are large and dark green in color. The plant produces the largest amount 
of foliage of any tomato that we know of, and therefore is well suited to lighter soil 
types. Heavy applications of nitrogenous fertilizers should not be made to this 
variety. The fruits resemble Stone and Greater Baltimore in type, being somewhat 
flattened, but are much larger, averaging six to eight ounces per fruit. The external 
and internal color is a dark red, and the interior structure is very solid with very 
small seed cavities. A distinguishing character of Brown’s Special is the light green 
color of the fruits just before they ripen. Brown’s Special yields over ten tons per 
acre where such a late maturing variety can be grown to advantage. The crop is 
produced later than Stone or any of that group. This is a fine juice and canning 
tomato. 
CHALK’S JEWEL (EAGLEY STRAIN) 
This strain has been grown and selected for a number of years by a Penn¬ 
sylvania farmer. We have been further selecting it for large, smooth fruits of good 
color. It is of the large Bonny Best type. 
EARLIANA 
This variety is the standard for first early fruits. We have been working on 
this selection to improve the smoothness of the fruits. 
GLOBE (PINK FRUITS) 
Some markets can use only pink fruited varieties. For this trade, we have 
this fine selection of globe type, with very smooth pink fruits of an exceptionally 
high yield per acre. These fruits are globular when small, but become very slightly 
flattened as they mature and attain large size. 
