ALL LANDRETHS’ TOMATO SEED IS GROWN AT BLOOMSDALE FARM 
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PENNSYLVANIA STATE 
TOMATO SEED CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
Tomato Stock Seed—Before any variety can even be entered for certification in Pennsylvania, stock 
seed from carefully selected and staked plants must be saved the year previous to certification. D. Landreth 
Seed Co. goes further than that, as our stock seed is saved from carefully staked plants at least two years 
previous to certification, and seed from those staked plants proved by test a year in advance of certification. 
Only the very best tested strains are used for growing our fields for certification. 
Field Inspection —Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer of the Bureau of Plant Industry, De¬ 
partment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. Warren Mack of Pennsylvania State College, accom¬ 
panied by Hal Mills, Plant Breeder for D. Landreth Seed Co., inspect all our tomato fields before the first 
pickings are made. At least one more field inspection is necessary and sometimes one or two after that 
before these two inspectors are satisfied that the fields are up to the high standards required. During these 
inspections the fields are rated for vigor, and the plants and fruits are carefully examined for disease and 
trueness to type, whole fields being discarded if they do not meet the very strict requirements. 
Inspection of Equipment —The seed saving machines are inspected, and the processes of washing 
and drying of the seed are checked. 
Germination Tests —Samples of certified tomato seed are taken by Inspector Lauer direct from the 
bagged stocks. These are tested for germination at Harrisburg and certificates issued to our Company. 
Certification Stickers —The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture issues pink certification stickers 
which we paste on each package of Certified and Crown Picked Certified Tomato Seed. These stickers 
state that the tomato seed in the package was inspected and certified by the Pennsylvania Department of 
Agriculture. We guarantee the seed to be part of that inspected and passed in accordance with the Penn¬ 
sylvania rules and regulations for the certification ol tomato seed. 
CROWN PICKED CERTIFIED TOMATO SEED 
The demand for Crown Picked Tomato Seed has been so great that we have previously been unable to 
fill the orders for it. We now have Crown Picked Seed of all the certified tomato varieties listed. For 
Crown Picked Seed only the first or crown clusters of fruits are used. Some growers claim that crown 
picked seed is plumper and therefore produces earlier fruits the following year than the seed from later 
pickings. 
IN THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR VARIETIES OF TOMATOES, WE HAVE 
PLACED A STAR ★ BEFORE EACH VARIETY OF WHICH WE HAVE CROWN PICKED CER¬ 
TIFIED AND CERTIFIED TOMATO SEED. THE REGULAR VARIETIES DO NOT HAVE A 
STAR ★ 
Prices for Tomato Seed —Prices for all Landreth stocks of Crown Picked Certified, Certified and 
Regular Tomato Seed will be found at the front of this catalog. 
RED VARIETIES 
Landreths’ Bloomsdale Early — 95 Days. 
A new Landreth introduction for 1939. It is a single 
plant selection from the Second Early Group, and 
received fifteen points from three of the All America 
Vegetable Judges. The plants are small and open, 
and produce an abundance of large ovate, solid 
fruits with deep red internal and external color. 
Excellent for early market or canning in the 
Northern States. Uniform and prolific. 
Landreths’ Bloomsdale Late — 120 Days. 
Selected as a single plant in the Late Group, this 
new 1939 introduction can be grown only in the 
South or where the growing season is very long. 
Haring a large, coarse plant, it should be fertilized 
lightly. The fruits are very large, smooth, dark red 
in color and very solid, and somewhat flattened. 
It received nine points from two A. A. S. Judges. 
Can be used for late canning and market. 
Landreths’ Bloomsdale Midseason—100 Days. 
This new midseason Landreth tomato for 1939 was 
voted fifteen points by two of the A. A. S. Judges. 
Selected as a single plant many years ago, it has 
continued to produce an enormous number of very 
uniform, smooth, globular, solid, dark red fruits of 
medium size. One very enthusiastic Judge said, 
“Just as firm as an apple. You can drop it off of a 
table and it does not even crack. A splendid 
shipper and canner.” 
Landreths’ Bloomsdale Self Topper—95 Days. 
Another new Landreth introduction for 1939. An 
outstanding single plant selection in the Self Topper 
Group. It received eight points from two of the 
All America Judges. A miniature plant with an 
enormous crop of globular, deep red, solid, medium 
sized fruits. Uniform and prolific. Good for 
canning and market in Northern States. 
★BONNY BEST—100 Days. The fruits of this 
old favorite are globular when small, becoming 
slightly flattened when they attain large size. Our 
strain has been selected for heavy yield. In a test 
at Pennsylvania State College recently, Landreths’ 
Certified Bonny Best produced the highest yield of 
marketable fruits of the 10 varieties in the Second 
Early Group, and the largest average size of fruits. 
★BREAK O’DAY—95 Days. The vines of this 
variety are very open growing and somewhat re¬ 
semble Earliana in appearance. It is quite resistant 
to disease. The fruits are medium to large in size 
and quite closely resemble the Marglobe as to shape. 
This variety is not recommended for light nor sandy 
soils. 
★BROWN’S SPECIAL—120 Days. The plant of 
Brown’s Special produces the largest amount of 
foliage of any tomato that we know of, therefore is 
well suited to lighter soil types. Heavy applications 
of nitrogenous fertilizers should not be made to this 
variety. The fruits resemble Stone in type, but are 
much larger, averaging 6 to 8 ounces per fruit. The 
external and internal color is a dark red, and the 
interior structure is very solid with very small seed 
cavities. 
ALL TOMATO PACKETS 10c EXCEPT CERTIFIED 15c AND CROWN PICKED CERTIFIED 20c 
