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Asgrow Seeds are Well-bred 
TOMATOES—Continued 
Grothen's Globe: 68 days. Grown in the South, 
especially for green wrap shipping. Of good 
color and foliage. 
Gulf State Market: 80 days. For Southern ship¬ 
pers. Early, large and free from cracks; globu¬ 
lar, purplish pink, and thick-skinned. 
John Baer: 70 days. Medium sized fruits, semi- 
globular, bright scarlet. An early strain. 
June Pink (Pink Earliana): 69 days. Very early; 
flattened globe, medium size. 
Livingston's Globe: 82 days. A good pink va¬ 
riety for greenhouse or shipping. Large smooth 
fruits ripen evenly; purplish rose. 
^Marglobe: 77 days. A popular variety for 
local or distant markets. Strong plants with 
heavy foliage; fruits medium large, nearly globu¬ 
lar, smooth, solid, thick-walled and of deep 
scarlet. 
Oxheart: 90 days. Fruits large, heart-shaped, 
rosy pink and solid. Open vines. 
Pearson: 76 days. A recent introduction used in 
California for shipping and canning. Medium 
sized, scarlet, semi-globe fruits. 
Ponderosa: 88 days. Large spreading vines with 
very big flat fruits, apt to crack but solid, sub¬ 
acid and of excellent flavor. 
Pritchard (Scarlet Topper): 73 days. A popular 
wilt-resistant, self-topping or self-pruning va¬ 
riety. Fruits of good size and solid; globular. 
^Rutgers: 86 days. An excellent main crop 
variety introduced by the N. J. Experiment Sta¬ 
tion. Strong, prolific plants; large, bright red 
fruits of fine quality, near-globe shape, very 
attractive. 
^Scarlet Dawn: 70 days. All-America Gold 
Medal 1935. The vines are of medium growth, 
fairly open and very prolific. The fruits are 
globular and smooth, thick-walled, bright scarlet 
in color, ripening well to the stems. Exception¬ 
ally attractive. Early and prolific. 
Stokesdale: 73 days. Fruits of near globe shape, 
smooth, well colored and of good size. 
Stone Improved: 86 days. Large, thick-flat, deep, 
smooth, scarlet fruits, of fine quality. 
Yellow Ponderosa: 89 days. Similar to Pon¬ 
derosa, but of golden yellow color. 
Small-fruiled 
Red Plum, Yellow Plum, Red Pear, Yellow Pear: 
These varieties, about 2” long, are used for dec¬ 
orative purposes and in preserves and pickles. 
Attractive novelties. Their names are indicative 
of shape and color. 
San Marzano: 80 days. Fruits rectangular, 3" x 
1 ^4', in clusters. The Asgrow strain is notably 
solid; deep red flesh with little juice. 
Tomato seed-saving operations. Every precaution is taken against seed-borne disease germs. First 
the plants were started in sterilized soil in the greenhouse, then set out in selected fields. Now the 
seed is thoroughly fermented and disinfected with corrosive sublimate, each step being conducted 
under completely sanitary conditions. 
