# -PEXER HENDERSON A.CO., NEW YORK- 
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HENDERSON’S CRIMSON CUSHION TOMATO 
THE SCARLET BROTHER OF PONDEROSA 
The Earliest Large Tomato — A continuous and late fruiter — Of 
immense size and as smooth as an apple — Ripens thoroughly 
all over, the stem-end coloring as well — Almost seedless 
and as solid as beefsteak — Prodigious bearer. 
“Four Crimson Cushion surpasses any other tomato I ever grew in beauty and flavor and the size is 
perfectly enormous.'* ^frt,..^f. WELSH, Clinton, Md, 
"Crimson Cushion will yield a crop where all other tomatoes fail; for beauty, size and flavor they 
cannot be excelled." J, W. DALE, Du Boise, Pa. 
"The Crimson Cushion is the finest tomato 1 have ever tried and I have quite a name for raising fine 
tomatoes." Mrs. WALTON FORT, Minden, La. 
"Last year we had plenty of tomatoes from your Crimson Cushion until Election Day—while our 
neighbors' tomatoes were a failure in almost every instance, owing to the damp season." 
L. J. HOWEN, Cedar Falls, la 
EARLY FREEDOM TOMATO 
THE BEST EARLY TOMATO IN EXISTENCE 
Not only early, but a prodigious and continuous bearer until frost. Fruits of 
moderate size, as handsome and uniform as if moulded. Quality, 
solidity and flavor surpassingly fine. 
Early Freedom is unqualifiedly superior to any other early tomato grown. 
Its value lies not only in the actual time of ripening first fruit, but that 
such enormous quantities of frviit can be gathered while all other so-called 
“Earlies” are ripening only a few. The fruits are of good size, brilliant 
scarlet in color, perfectly round, smooth and remarkably handsome. The 
flesh is solid, of perfect flavor and absolutely free from any acidity. The fruits 
are borne in large clusters, in phenomenal abundance and continuously, 
from the middle of July (in this latitude) until killed by frost. We con¬ 
sider Freedom the best variety for greenhouse cultivation. It sets its fruits 
very freely, and produces large clusters of most attractive fruit, medium in 
size, and is of far better quality than the seedy, pulpy varieties generally 
used for this purpose. It also has a very tough skin and flesh is very firm, 
making it the best shipper and keeper of the early varieties. {See cut.) 
Price, 10c. pkt., 40c. oz., $1.26 i lb., $4.00 lb. 
W hen we introduced the Ponderosa, 
we hazarded the opinion that that 
famous variety was the forerunner of a new 
race of tomatoes that would eventually 
displace the seedy, acid sorts in cultiva¬ 
tion, and the advent of this splendid 
variety verifies this prediction. The Crim¬ 
son Cushion is more symmetrical in shape 
than the Ponderosa and is much thicker 
through from stem to blossom-end ; in fact, 
so marked is this characteristic that it 
is frequently almost round. The color is 
brilliant scarlet-crimson, untinged with 
purple, and ripens up almost completely 
to the stem. The Crimson Cushion, like 
the Ponderosa, is almost seedless. The 
flesh is firm and meaty and of superb 
quality. It is enormously prolific and 
very early for so large a tomato. {See cut.) 
Price, 10c. pkt., 60c. oz., $2.00 J lb. 
&.rHow to Grow Tomatoes in Garden, Field and Greenhouse Free 
