Pear Shaped Red—100 Days. Small fruits shaped 
like a pear. 
Plum Shaped Red—100 Days. 2 inches long by 
} to 1 inch in diameter, the shape of a plum. 
%* PRITCHARD or SCARLET TOPPER—95 
Days. ‘All-America’ Gold Medal 1933. The 
plants of Pritchard (Scarlet Topper) are compara- 
tively small, the leaves and stems a little coarser 
than those of Earliana. The vines are branching 
and fairly short, the tips ending in clusters of fruit 
or leaflets, thus giving it the name of “Topper.” 
The fruits are medium in size and globular or slightly 
flattened at the blossom end. Features of this 
variety, which strongly appeal to canners, are its 
dark red interior, as well as exterior color, and its 
extreme solidity. Another strong point in its favor as 
a canning tomato, is its large yield of ripe fruit on 
rich soil over a short picking period: In a recent 
test at Pennsylvania State College, Landreths’ 
Certified Pritchard produced the highest yield per 
acre of the 5 strains tested, the highest percentage 
of marketable fruits, and the largest average size of 
fruits. 
* RUTGERS—100 Days. Introduced by Prof. 
Schermerhorn of The New Jersey Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station. It was developed by crossing 
Marglobe with the J. T. D. The Rutgers produces 
a rather large plant with thick stems and large 
leaflets, somewhat larger in all respects than Mar- 
nitrogen should not be made, for Rutgers is a strong 
grower. The natural abundance of foliage serves 
as ample protection from sunscald of the fruits when 
light, sandy soils are used. 
The fruits are somewhat larger than Marglobe, 
and about the same size as Break O’Day. Being 
larger than Marglobe, they tend to flatten out more 
than this variety, not being quite as globe-shaped. 
The external color is dark red. The internal struc- 
ture is as good as our Marglobe or Break O’ Day, 
having thick outer and inner walls, and very small 
seed cavities. The internal color is darker red than 
Marglobe. Rutgers is recommended to the canner, 
the market gardener and the home gardener. In 
recent tests at Pennsylvania State College, 
Landreths’ Certified Rutgers produced the highest 
marketable yield per acre of the 4 strains in the test, 
and the largest average size of fruits. In Texas, 
Landreths’ strain of Rutgers is the most outstanding 
introduction in recent years. 
* RUTGERS (Early Strain)—95 Days. In our 
tests in 1938, Early Rutgers had a little smaller 
plant than regular Rutgers, and not as much foliage. 
The fruits mature about a week earlier. The size 
and shape of the fruits, however, are about the same 
in both sorts. 
%* STONE—115 Days. The standard late variety 
for all purposes. Plants are large, and produce 
large, flat fruits with good color and solid interior 
globe. On good, rich land, heavy applications of structure. 
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. 3 
Field Inspection—Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. Warren Mack of Pennsyl- 
vania State College, accompanied by the 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 pro- 
cesses 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 cer- 
tificates 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 in- 
spected and certified by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. We guarantee the 
seed to be part of that inspected and’ passed in accordance with the Pennsylvania rules and 
regulations for the certification of 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. 

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