% PAN AMERICA—67 to 75 Days from plants. 
An entirely new tomato developed from a cross 
between Marglobe and the Red Currant tomato of 
Peru. More resistant to Fusarium Wilt than any 
other variety. Vine, foliage and fruit of the Mar- 
globe type. Needs no irrigation. Earlier than the 
-Marglobe. Fruits globular, bright scarlet, outer and 
inner walls very thick. Heavy yielder. No other 
tomato variety is more suitable for canning and 
marketing. Can safely be planted in soils infested 
with Fusarium Wilt. It has the highest recom- 
mendation of all authorities on tomato. 
% PRITCHARD (SCARLET TOPPER)—95 Days 
seed; 75 Days, plants. ‘‘All-America’”’ Gold Medal 
1933. The plants of Pritchard (Scarlet Topper) are 
comparatively 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 test at Pennsylvania State College, 
Landreths’ Certified Prichard 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, seed; 86 Days, plants. 
Introduced by Prof. Schermerhorn of The New 
Jersey Agricultural Experiment 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 Marglobe. On good, rich land, heavy 
applications of 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 struec- 
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 reeommended to the canner, 
the market gardener and the home gardener. In 
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 intro- 
duction in recent years. 
% RUTGERS (Early Strain)—95 Days, seed; 79 
Days, plants. 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, IMPROVED—115 Days, seed; 86 
Days, Plants. The standard late variety for all 
purposes. Plants are large, and produce large, flat 
fruits with good color and solid interior 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. 
Field Inspection—Advanced Plant Pathologist K. W. Lauer of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., and Dr. Warren Mack of Pennsy]- 
vania State College, accompanied by D. Landreth Seed Co., field men, 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. 
tificates issued to our Company. 
These are tested for germination at Harrisburg and cer- 
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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