MICHAEL-LEONARD SEED CO. 
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Tomato 
We grow the largest part of our Tomato seed in 
Michigan. Our Tomato seed is saved from choice, ripe 
select Tomatoes, grown only for seed purposes. You 
cannot get any better Tomato seed, no matter how high 
a price you may pay for it. We grow Tomato seed for 
many of the largest seed houses and canning factories 
throughout the United States. 
Culture. The Tomato requires 100 days or more to mature from 
seed. As Tomatoes are killed by other than light frcJst, early 
Tomatoes should be started in hotbeds 2 months before they may 
be transplanted out-of-doors. Three weeks later these plants may 
be potted or given a space of 4 by 4 inches in the hotbeds. Before 
setting in the field, the plants should be gradually exposed to the 
outside conditions and the quantity of water given them decreased. 
Transplant on a cloudy day if possible, and water freely. Nitrate 
of soda may be given each plant at this time with profit. A space 
of 4 by 4 feet should be given each plant in the field or more for 
robust varieties, except that where they are carefully pruned and 
trained, which is unnecessary, they may be planted as close as 2 by 
2 feet. One ounce of seed gives 2,000 plants. The number of days 
given is from setting plants to ripe fruit. 
CHALK’S EARLY JEWEL. (76 days). We consider 
this one of the very best early Tomatoes yet intro¬ 
duced. Vines vigorous and very productive. Fruit 
deep scarlet-red. Fine for early Tomatoes in the home 
garden. 
PONDEROSA. (87 days). A purplish pink Tomato of 
largest size. Vigorous grower and very productive; 
fruit very solid, fairly smooth and of good quality. 
Chicago’s home gardeners like the large, fine fruits. 
PRITCHARD OR SCARLET TOPPER. (76 days). 
Wilt-resistant. Fruits large, smooth, globular, solid 
with thick walls and cross sections; color deep scarlet. 
Splendid home and market garden variety; excellent 
for shipping. 
MARGLOBE. (80 days). Resistant to nail-head rust 
and fusarium wilt. Large, perfect globe-shaped fruits 
of a beautiful scarlet color. Its spreading habit of 
growth enables it to bear in great abundance. 
JUNE PINK. (67 days). Vine makes a very scant leaf 
growth 2 to lYi feet tall. Fruit averages 3 inches in 
diameter, slightly flattened tip and bottom with 
smooth, thin, tough skin and medium thick wall with 
five large seed cells. Earliest of the pinks. 
Pritchard 
JOHN BAER. (73 days). An early red Tomato similar 
to Chalk’s Early Jewel; very productive. 
LIVINGSTON’S GLOBE. (82 days). Of beautiful 
globe shape with quite a percentage of elongated 
(stem to blossom) fruits, which permits a greater 
number of slices being taken than with flat fruited 
sorts. Color a beautiful, glossy rose tinged purple. 
GROTHEN’S GLOBE. (73 days). A new, early ma¬ 
turing, wilt-resistant variety which is becoming popu¬ 
lar in some sections for shipping. Similar to Break 
O’ Day, but the fruits are of deeper scarlet and are 
free from objectionable yellow about the stem end. 
BONNY BEST. (7? days). Vines strong and vigorous; 
fruit deep scarlet, ripening to stem; flesh firm. A 
productive and very desirable early and main crop 
variety. 
RUTGERS. (72 days). A recent development intro¬ 
duced by the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 
Station. Fruits medium to large, similar in shape to 
Marglobe but slightly more flattened. Highly rec¬ 
ommended as a second early maturing variety for 
canning and Tomato juice. 
BEAUTY. (84 days). Vines large and heavy; fruits 
large, solid, smooth, purplish-pink. One of the most 
popular large purple Tomatoes. 
GREATER BALTIMORE. (83 days). Particularly 
valuable for canning; heavily productive. Fruits deep 
scarlet-red, large, deep but flat, smooth, very firm 
and solid. 
BREAK O’ DAY. (71 days). A wilt-resistant Tomato 
that is nearly as early as Earliana and as productive 
as Marglobe. Its fruits are large, smooth, red, and 
globular; very similar to Marglobe but usually larger. 
Used cold for salads or stuffed. 
BRIMMER. (91 days). Similar to Ponderosa but larger, 
a single specimen often weighing 3 pounds. Fruit 
solid and meaty, massive in size, delicious flavor, 
rich, dark color, and almost seedless. 
ACME. (84 days). Popular bright pink shipping 
Tomato. Fruits solid, set in clusters. 
ALL TOMATOES PRICED AT: 
Pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; M lb., ^1.25. 
Marglobe 
