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Burpee's Table Talk Tomato 
The name that cost us $500 
This is the “Nameless Tomato’’ of last year. 
We offered $100 for a name and five persons sug¬ 
gested the name “Table Talk,’’ so we sent our 
check for $100 to each of the following: 
Mrs. J. Russell Davis, Charlottesville, Va. 
Mrs. Frank M. Dosch, Richland Center, Wise. 
Charles Hofstra, Prospect Park, N* J. 
Wm. H. Kirby, Shirley, Mass. 
Mrs. B. F. Saunders, Newburyport, Mass. 
1118 Burpee's 
Table Talk Tomato 
This is the "Nameless” 
Tomato of last year 
Bwpee’s Tahle Tall( Tomato 
for which we offered $100 for a name. The 
winning name selected by our judges was 
“Table Talk.” submitted by five persons, 
to each of whom we have sent our check 
for $100. The winners’ names and 
addresses are given at the left. 
Table Talk is a distinct new, all¬ 
purpose tomato—a new and different 
type of fruit on a new kind of vine. 
The plant is short stemmed and 
bushy, but with no self-topping tend¬ 
ency. The leaves are small and set 
closely together, dark green, thick 
and firm in texture, forming a dense 
mass of foliage which not only protects 
the fruit, but virtually hides it, especially 
in the center of the plant. 
The fruit, unusual in that it combines 
large size with deep globular form, aver¬ 
ages 7 to ozs. and maintains its size well 
throughout the season. The shoulder is smooth, 
there is little or no depression at the stem end, 
and the scar is quite small—in other words, it is 
refined in spite of its size. The color is bright scarlet, 
uniform and attractive. Slice Burpee’s Table Talk Tomato 
and you will marvel at the structure and the firmness of its 
interior. First fruits ready to pick in 75 days from setting out the plants. 
100 seeds 10^; 200 seeds 15^; Yz oz. 95^; oz. $1.65; 4 ozs. $5.00. 
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1077 Burpee's New Gloriana Tomato 
A new tomato of the E^rliana type, but preceding that variety in maturity by 3 to 5 days and excelling it in quality, 
fruit shape and appearance, yield, and length of bearing season. Gloriana tomato was developed from a cross of Bison and 
Earliana at our Michigan breeding grounds and as a result of careful selecting and reselecting on our Fordhook Farms in 
Pennsylvania, under the direct supervision of our tomato breeding experts, we offer a variety deserving of your attention. 
The plant is small at the beginning of the season, becoming medium size when fully grown; it is indeterminate in 
habit, with small leaves of heavy texture. The fruit clusters are very large, the basal cluster bearing as many as 12 fruits 
under average conditions. Fruit is medium scarlet-red. semi-globular, neat at the shoulder, with extremely small stem, 
cavity and blossom s*ar; average weight 5 ozs., cracking less than Eiarliana. Interior is moderately open but firm. 
Each year we conduct hundreds of trials of tomatoes on our experimental grounds. Comparative trials of Gloriana 
and the many different strains of Earliana convince us that Gloriana is a superior variety of the Earliana class for home 
garden and early market. Ripe fruit is ready to pick in about 55 days from the time the plants are set in the garden. 
100 seeds 15^; 200 seeds 25^; Y 2 oz. $1.25; oz. $2.00; 4 ozs. $5.95. 
^ktlcC Burpee Co. Gloriana Tomato—typical fruit and one cut to show formation of interior 
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