BONNY BEST (Langdon Strain) 
The improvement shown by this strain the past few years has 
been a source of much satisfaction to us, as well as of profit to our 
customers. 
It has gained in earliness, yet retained its heavy yield. More—it 
has increased in yield. Several tests alongside other strains have 
given it first place in earliness, and usually first place in total crop as 
well. That means something, for Bonny Best has always been early 
enough for good money and noted as a heavy cropper. 
The fruit qualities are fine. It picks uniformly a good packing 
size, a little larger than Bonny Best used to be. The old tendency 
toward cracking of the skin has largely been overcome. Smooth, 
round, well colored, firm—it is in every way an excellent packing 
tomato. 
Unless you are seriously troubled by wilt you can use this strain 
of Bonny Best for second early with every confidence. It is just nat¬ 
urally the best. 
If you have extra early soil give this strain a trial as first early. 
It will ripen a little behind the Adirondack Earliana, but the heavier 
yield may more than make up. If you have a piece of ground that is 
especially fertile, yet early and warm, try a few extra early plants 
pruned to one stem and staked. Pruning will hasten maturity by 
several days, on rich soil; you may want to go into it on a larger scale 
another year. Many growers are finding it profitable. 
For canning crop the Bonny Best has been very popular. It is 
now being challenged by the Marglobe, however, even where wilt 
resistance need not be considered. The Marglobe, a little later in 
maturing, may produce a slightly heavier crop. It will require several 
extra pickings for the same bulk, though, for its ripening is delayed 
over quite a long picking season. 
Marglobe has been advised to replace Bonny Best for greenhouse 
work. Where wilt is a factor Marglobe, being resistant, probably is 
better. If wilt is not troublesome Marglobe cannot, in our opinion, 
complete with this strain of Bonny Best in the greenhouse. 
