NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES IN VEGETABLES 
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IMPROVED STRAIN No. 10 
Sparks’ Earliana Tomato 
Sparks’ Earliana Tomato, named and introduced by us in 1000, lias proved one of the most successful 
vegetable novelties ever introduced. It was developed in the light, warm soils of Southern New Jersey, 
where every effort is constantly being made to get tomatoes into the market at the earliest possible date. It. 
was thisspiritof enterprise that developed the Earliana blood in the first place,and since ourintroduclion 
of this wonderfully productive and beautiful, very early tomato in 1900, this process of careful selection 
by enterprising growers has been going on each year, and we are now enabled to offer a new strain of 
Sparks’ Earliana, which we have named the No. io, as being fully one week to 10 days earlier than 
the original type, with rather more vigor of vine and foliage, and of rather sweeter flavor in the fruit. 
We know we are making a strong claim when we propose anything that is earlier or better than 
that originally introduced as Sparks’ Earliana. but we confidently offer this No. io Strain as being an 
improvement on the type. We sent this out to a number of our good customers the past year, under 
the number, and nearly everyone reported it a week to ten days earlier than the old strain under the 
same circumstances. 
A difference of only a few days in getting your early tomatoes to market will make a difference in 
your receipts of hundreds of dollars, so that the slight additional cost of the seed is absolutely nothing 
when compared with the results that it makes it possible for you to obtain. 
Price of Improved No. io Strain : Per pkt., 15c.; \ oz., 60c.; oz., $1.00 ; } lb., $3.00; lb., $10.00. 
Price of Sparks’ Earliana Tomato, True Introducers’ Stock : Per pkt., 10c.; \ oz., 30c.; oz., 50c.; 
i lb., $1.50; lb., $5.00. 
