MICHIGAN GROWN TOMATO SEED IS THE BEST 

Burgess’ Climbing Trip-L-Crop Tomato 
Often Produces 2 to 3 Bushels from One Vine 
Burgess’ Climbing TRIP-L-CROP Tomato is a variety with many superior qualities. 
qualities. 
average family. 
from one vine. 
SUGAR 
TOMATO 
The introducer of this 
tomato claims that it is 
the sweetest of all toma- 
toes, containing more 
than 12% sugar. Nothing 
like it ever before. Note 
the beauty and symmetry 
of the long racemes of 
fruit, often two feet in 
length. Smaller than or- 
dinary tomatoes, but their 
superb sweetness and ap- 
pearance make the Sugar 
Tomato one of the finest 
vegetable introductions in 
years. Bears enormously 
and is in a distinct class 
for dainty dishes, salads, 
sauces, juice, etc. Be first 
to have it in your locality. 
New, extremely rare and 
unusual. Pkt., 20¢; % 
0Z., .65C. 

Sugar Tamate 
SELECT 
BONNY BEST MARKET STRAIN 
Our select Market Strain of Bonny Best is the finest 
on the market, being earlier, larger and more produc- 
tive than Standard Strains. The smooth, scarlet fruit 
is practically free from cracks and of fine flavor. 
Fruits average 5 ounces and are about a week later 
than our Special Earliana. 
Rutger’s Wilt Resistant 
A main crop Tomato developed at the New Jersey 
Agricultural Experiment Station. Produces a large 
plant wifh an abundance of foliage to protect the fruit 
from sunscald. The fruits are medium to large, simi- 
lar in shape to Marglobe, but more flattened at the 
stem end; bright red, smooth, with thick walls and 
small seed cells. Ability to ripen from the inside out, 
Jeaving the interior free from fiber, and its low acidity, 
makes Rutger’s an outstanding variety for canning. 
WILT-RESISTANT STONE 
If you are bothered with wilt in your locality, you 
will be interested in this  wilt-resistant strain of the 
old reliable Stone. Large, bright red, very firm, solid, 
perfectly smooth, main crop tomato. Very fine flavor ; 
excellent for canning. 
MATCH LESS One of the best large-fruited 
main-crop Tomatoes for 
home use, nearby markets and canning. Vines vigor- 
ous, extremely productive and continue to bear until 
frost. Fruits of rich scarlet-red color, half flat, ovoid, 
smooth, very meaty and solid, free from cracks or 
other irregularities, and noted for their excellent long- 
keeping qualities. 
GOLDEN QUEEN 
ted varieties. 
Leading yellow To- 
mato. Less acid than 










delicious in salads, preserves and pickles: 
small fruited varieties. 
GROUND CHERRY 
Husk Tomato. 
manner as tomatoes. 
they are excellent. 
lific bearers, 
place. Pkt., 0c; % oz., 35¢; 0z., 60c, postpaid. 

Small Preserving Tomatoes 
The following miniature Tomatoes are named for their resem- 
blance to the various fruits and are very ornamental, as well as 
Red Cherry, Red Pear, 
Red Plum, Yellow Cherry, Yellow Pear, Yellow Plum. 
Y% oz., 30c; oz., 50¢; 6 pkts., one of each, for 30c. 
SMALL FRUITED IN MIXTURE. A mixture of the above six 
Pkt., (0c; 4% 02., 30c; 0z., 50c, postpaid. 
Also called Winter Cherry and 
While it is not a 
true tomato, it belongs to the same family and is grown in the same 
The small fruits are borne in husks. 
are delicious either raw or cooked, and when dried in sugar, are 
as good as raisins for cakes and puddings. For preserves and pies 
Easily grown on almost any soil, and are pro- 
Fruits will keep nearly all winter if stored in a cool 
Vines grow rapidly to a height of 10 to 18 feet (sometimes more than 20 feet), and 
the beautiful, large crimson fruits average 344 inches across and 2% inches deep, 
with some as deep as 3% inches and as wide as 5 inches across. 
solid, with meaty center surrounded by small seed cells which are separated by 
solid divisions, which makes the tomato unexcelled for both shipping and eating 
It is free from blight and disease and drought resistant. 
productive of all tomatoes. 
The fruits are 
It is the most 
Two or three vines will produce enough fruit for an 
It is not uncommon to pick more than two bushels of ripe tomatoes 
Pkt., 15¢; 14 0z., 50c; oz., 85c; %4 lb., $2.75; lb., $10.00, postpaid. 
This tomato is of the Bison type, but 
VICTO is larger and more productive, and 
only 4 to 6 days later. It was bred by Dr. Yaeger 
at Michigan State College and was introduced in 1941. 
It has the rare combination of fine points sought by 
growers for years. The vine ‘is small and may be 
planted closer together than standard sorts (2x3 ft. is 
recommended), thus producing a much larger yield of 
early fruits to the acre, The fruits are not only extra 
early, but are borne in great abundance, and are 
so smooth, firm, solid and fine colored that they com- 
pare with the best later varieties. Fruits are bright 
red, average over 44% ounces each, and ripen all over 
with no green spots. A handsome tomato of excel- 
lent quality and a real money maker for the market 
gardener. 


Victor Tomato 
White Beauty Tomato 
The White Beauty Tomato is ivory-white in color 
and the flesh is almost paper white, It is of large 
size and of excellent quality for slicing, canning and 
juice. It contains absolutely no acid, so can be 
eaten by thousands of people who have heretofore 
avoided Tomatoes on account of the acidity. Pkt., 
{5c; 3 pkts., 30e; % oz., 60c; oz., $1.00, postpaid. 
Pride of the Market 
Very early, only a day or two later than Earliana, but 
considerably larger and of much superior quality. An 
Especially recom- 
mended for the Northern States and for growing on 
As a market and shipping variety it has 
extra-solid, beautiful scarlet tomato. 
heavy soils. 
no superior, 


ee 
Photograph of Burgess’ Climbing Trip-L-Crop Tomato 
Grown by Edward Evans, Winchester, Ky. 
Mr. Evans picked one bushel of ripe tomatoes and 
still had two bushels of green ones on this vine at 
the time this picture was taken. Some weighed al- 
most 2\/5 Ibs. each. 
Michigan State Forcing 
Developed at Michigan State College. In addition to 
being an ideal main-crop garden variety, it is an ideal 
variety for greenhouse and soilless agriculture. Its 
self-fertilizing characteristics insures a heavy setting 
of perfect globular-shaped fruits averaging 454 ounces 
each. The bright red fruit is firm, meaty and practi- 
cally free from blemishes. The thick outer wall of the 
fruit makes this variety unsurpassed for long-distance 
shipping, and it has wonderful keeping qualities. It 
may be allowed to ripen on the vines without loss to 
the grower. The grower who wants the best will make 
no mistake in planting Michigan State Forcing. 

Scarlet Topper (Pritchard) 
The last variety introduced by the late Dr. Pritch- 
ard, originator of Break O’Day and Marglobe, and 
considered his best. Plants are sturdy, compact and 
leafy due to close-jointed stems, and are wilt resist- 
ant. Fruits are globe shaped, absolutely smooth, bril- 
liant red, and of uniform size and quality. Flesh is 
thick and seed cavities small, making for heavy, solid 
fruits. Seldom cracks, and yields of 15 tons and over 
per acre are common. Often produces 10 or more 
fruits in one cluster, all of the same size and ripen- 
ing together. 
A profitable market and canning variety, due to 
earliness, uniformity, and quality, and an ideal home 
variety because of its self-pruning habit of growth, re- 
quiring less space per plant. Ripens only a few days 
after the first early varieties. 
JOHN BAER Popular early variety. Usu- 
ally ripens in about 90 days 
on our Michigan farms. Fruits nearly round, uniform 
in shape, smooth, and without core. An excellent 
shipper and one of the most productive. 
Tomato Seed Postpaid at the Following Prices 

Bonny Best, Select Market Strain. 
Golden Queen 
John Baer 
Matchless 
Michigan State Forcing 
Pkt., 10c;5 

Pride of the Market 
Rutger’s Wilt-Resistant 
Scarlet Topper or Pritchard 
Victor..... pliasn eodenta)y biol « vee ee 
Wilt-Resistant Stone... 
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Pkt. 
Y% Oz. %4,Lb.| Lb. | 2Lbs. | 5 Lbs. 


$2.95 |$5.30 
4.50 | 8.10 
2.95 | 5.30 
3.00 | 5.40 
6.00 
6.00 
3.50 
3.50 
8.00 
3.00 
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1.35 
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1.75 
1.75 
1.00 
1.00 
2.40 
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We Do Not Buy Our Seed from Other Growers and ‘‘Just Hope’’ It Will Be Good. 
Grow Our Own Tomato Seed and Know It Is Good. 
of Tomatoes for seed purposes only. 
of a bountiful crop of highest quality fruits. 
Last year we grew 159 acres 
Burgess’ Tomato Seed is your best assurance 
