TOMATOES 
A packet of seed will produce about 150 plants; an ounce 2000 plants. 
Prof. C. B. Raymond and Dr. Charles Chupp of the N. Y. State College of 
Agriculture inspecting one of our tomato fields for certification. 
890 VICTOR. Best Extra Early. An All American Winner. We 
believe this is the best extra early tomato yet 
developed. It ripens enormous crops of large smooth solid fruit even 
earlier than the old extra early kinds and the quality is much superior. 
See full description on page 5. 
N. Y. State Certified Seed. Pkt. 15c; 144 Oz. 40c; Oz. 75c; 14 Lb. $2.35. 

“Last year we sold over 114 tons of Victor tomatoes from 250 plants in 
the garden. Pretty fair, we thought.’ 
Albert Lee, E. Springfield, Penn. Feb. 16, 1943. 
889 VALIANT. (New-) Large, Very Early Fruit. In many 
sections for both home and market, this new 
early tomato has now taken the place of the old Earliana. It usually 
ripens a few days later than that variety but the fruit is so much 
better-looking and finer quality that this difference is unimportant. 
The tomatoes are of good size, round and smooth, and color up to 
the stem much better than Earliana. The shape is even and the flesh 
is firm and thick; the quality is very good for an extra early variety. 
The vines are large and yigorous and have a spreading habit of 
growth; they do best on heavier soils with high fertility. Early yields 
are very heavy and this variety is widely adapted for Northern 
conditions. 
Pkt. 15c; % Oz. 40c; Oz. 70c; 14 Lb. $2.10. 
EARLIANA. We have discontinued this old extra early variety because 
it has now been largely displaced by the newer early types, Victor 
and Valiant. In most sections Victor is earlier and a much better 
producer of fine early fruit. For other places we recommend that 
growers try the new Valiant described above. 










John Baer 
Typical cluster of this widely used 
canning and market variety. 
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Harris’ New York State Certified 
Tomato Seed 
Our Certified Tomato Seed is all grown on our own farms in 
comparatively small fields that have our careful individual 
attention. 
For years we have made a specialty of raising tomato seed of the 
best possible quality from pedigreed stocks on our own farm 
here in the North. In 1935 we pioneered in producing the first 
crops of New York State Certified tomato seed to be grown. 
Again this year our tomato seed crops have been inspected by 
representatives of the New York Seed Improvement Cooperative 
Association, which is by law the official seed certifying agency 
in this State, and have fully passed their very strict requirements 
for trueness to type, purity of variety and freedom from disease. 
The standards for New York are higher than those of any other 
state, and there is no better tomato seed than ours to be bought, 
no matter what price is charged. 

Victor Tomatoes 
A single plant in our field—Note the heavy set of smooth ripe fruit. 
“T take this opportunity to add my word of praise for your Victor 
tomatoes. My plants are, I think beyond description in your catalog. I have 
counted 25 to 34 nice size fruit to a plant, to say nothing of the small ones 
not yet developed. There actually seems to be more tomatoes than vines. 
I plant them 3 ft. apart. They do not have any rotted ones, like many 
other varieties, which nearly always have the first ones with rotten ends. 
They do not seem to be affected by the blight. 
My friends are amazed when I show them the patch.’ 
Francis W. Miller, Baldwin, N. Y. August 19, 1943. 
867 JOHN BAER, !mproved Strain. Heavy Yielding. One of 
the most reliable sorts for canning, home 
garden and market. Ours is the Geneva strain which produces immense 
crops of smooth, handsome fruit larger than most strains of this variety. 
The fruit is solid, deep red all through, and produced 
in great clusters. It is early enough to ripen the whole crop 
before frost in a normal season. 
We find by carefully conducted trials and reports of critical 
growers thatour strain of John Baeris fully equal to any stock 
of this variety obtainable and far superior to most of them. 
N. Y. State Certified Seed. Pkt. 10c; 14 Oz. 35; Oz. 65¢;3 
14 Lb. $1.85. 

Harris’ Tomato Plants 
We make a specialty of growing the finest sturdy, true 
to name plants of the most popular varieties of toma- 
toes. They can be furnished either ready to set out in 
the open ground, or, if preferred, small plants which can 
be grown in frames for a few weeks before setting out. 
See pages 80 and 81 for full details. 

