_ # Tomatoes do best on a light, warm, not over rich soil, and much of 
fYl T the success depends upon securing a rapid, vigorous, unchecked 
■ III W m growl n during tlie early part of the season. Sow in hot bed during 
March, or from six to eight weeks before they can be set out into open ground ; when the plants have 
fonr leaves, transplant into shallow boxes, setting them four or live inches apart. Plant in open 
ground soon as all danger of frost is over, about 4 feet apart each way. 
The pi ants 
are quite hardy with rath¬ 
er slender open branches 
and moderate growth well 
set with fruits, nearly all 
of which ripen extremely 
early in the season. Toma¬ 
toes are deep scarlet and 
grow closely together in 
clusters of five to eight., all 
of medium size, averaging 
two and a half inches in 
diameter; they are smooth 
and solid, quite thick 
through, and free from the 
rough ribs or cracks. The 
flesh is deep red, with solid 
center and small seed-cells. 
Tomato,■**“June 
“June Pink” is a deep pink or pur¬ 
plish-colored tomato having the same 
character of growth and fruiting as 
Sparks’ Fur liana, while it is fatly as 
early and possesses greater sweetness 
and entire freedom from acidity. The 
plants are quite hardy and adapted to 
the practice of market gardeners who 
start their plants very early and have 
large plants well hardened ready to set 
out as early in the spring as the wea¬ 
ther will permit. 
The larger fruits, borne in clusters of 
three to five, measure three to four in¬ 
ches in diameter by two to two and 
one-half inches deep from stem to blos¬ 
som end. Both skin and flesh are of a 
deep pink or purplish tint, pleasing to 
the eye, while the crystalline flesh is 
of sweet mild flavor. 
BREAK O’DAY 
the New Jersey 
Break O’Day tomato has caused 
a sensation in tomato culture. It 
was bred and introduced by the U. 
S. Department of Agriculture as an 
Early Variety of the Marglobe type 
and is disease resistant. It ripens 
about the same time as Earliana 
which is about ten days earlier than 
the Marglobe. This seed has been 
Dept, of Agriculture. 
Certified by 
