TOMATOES FOR EVERYBODY 
Modern tomatoes are so greatly improved 
and so healthful that every garden should 
grow them. Recent experiments have shown 
that of all vegetables, Tomatoes stand in 
first place in supplying the precious vitamins 
needed for the human diet. Raw, cooked, 
canned or juiced, they are rich and delicious. 
Vitamins A, Bi, Bz, C and minerals. We 
especially suggest the wilt-resistant varieties 
for sure and paying crops, for home or market 
gardens. 
In the millions of new gardens since Pearl 
Harbor, Tomatoes, above all other vege- 
tables , have been the most satisfactory, easy 
to grow and desirable for fresh home use, 
canning and juicing. 
Culture—It takes 4 or 5 weeks from seeds 
to have plants to set out, so start seed in- 
doors or in hotbeds for transplanting after 
frosts are past. Broadcast seed thinly in 
well prepared bed or flat box, covering 4-4 
inch. Give plenty of light to make strong 
plants and thin if crowded. Transplant out- 
doors to rich, deeply prepared soil, 3 ft. 
apart each way, and keep up clean, shallow 
cultivation. Stake plants for strong support. 
Days to mature given are from setting plants 
to fret ripe fruits. Start seeds again in May 
for plants to bear until fall frosts. 
June Pink. 69 days from plants. The pink- 
fruited Earliana; earliest home and market 
garden variety. Bears medium-sized fruits 
in large clusters, uniform, smooth and at- 
tractive in color and shape. Plants are com- 
pact branching and prolific. 
Break O’Day. Wili-Resistant; 70 days. 
Scarlet fruited and our earliest wilt-resistant 
variety. Light, open foliage, and medium in 
herght. Medium-sized, full, round, firm and 
heavy fruits. Consider this an early Mar- 
globe and you have it. 
John Baer. 70 days. Scarlet fruited early 
tomato with excellent quality; smooth, 
nearly round, mild and firm-fleshed. Its skin 
is tough, which ts easily peeled or removed, 
free from cracks and desirable for home and 
market. Long bearing for an early. 
Pritchard. All-America Selection. Wilt- 
Resistant. 73 days. Scarlet-Topper. Disease- 
resisting variety for long and heavy bearing. 
This is from a Marglobe cross, inheriting its 
fine qualities together with earliness. Fruits 
are of good size, very uniform, smooth, 
globe-shaped, exceptionally firm and heavy, 
with thick, fleshy walls. They are borne in 
clusters on a stocky, medium-sized deter- 
minate plant. For home, market and ship- 
ping uses. 
Rutgers. Wilt-Resistant. 74 days. Scarlet 
fruited early Marglobe type of great value. 
Large, strong plant growth provides for a 
heavy production of brightest red fruits. 
They are firm and solid, with thick, fleshy 
walls and very small seed cavities, with low 
acidity and ripening uniformly from the 
center outward. A quality tomato for eating 
fresh, canning, juicing or for shipment. 
Louisiana Dixie. Wilt-Resistant. 74 days. 
Pink fruited selection out of Louisiana Pink 
by Dr. Julian C. Miller of the La. Experi- 
ment Station. It showed greater vigor than 
any other trial at the Station and with re- 
sistance to early blight. The handsome 
fruits are medium to large, globular, solid 
with heavy cell structure, small seeds and 
seed cavities, and not inclined to cracking. 
Louisiana Pink. Wilt-Resistant. 75 days. 
Our most popular and satisfactory pink- 
fruited tomato. Developed by the La. 
Experiment Station from an Acme-Earliana 
cross. It was found to make more on Louisi- 
ana wilt-infested Iands than any other 
variety. It is a heavy bearer of smooth, 
medium-sized, flattened globe-shaped fruits 
with fine flavor, firm flesh, small seed cavities 
and few seeds. Very desirable for home and 
market use. 
Louisiana Red. Wilt-Resistant. 75 days. 
Scarlet fruited, but otherwise similar to 
Louisiana Pink. More desirable by most 
people because of the red color. 
Grothens Globe. Wilt-Resistant. 76 days. 
Scarlet fruited, grand new tomato with very 
high production of uniform ripening fruits. 
Solid and globular, meaty, heavy and 
beautiful colored, it captures the second-early 
markets, usually coming in a week or more 
ahead of Marglobe. Fine for home gardens. 
Gulf State Market. 78 days. Pink fruited 
beauty, developed in Mississippi and be- 
lieved to be the best shipping variety grown 
there. It is resistant to blight and the strong 
vines withstand unfavorable weather. Globu- 
lar fruits are very free from cracks at the 
stem end, borne in clusters that ripen to- 
gether and it is also recommended for home 
and local markets. It is solid, thick walled, 
heavy and mild. 
Marglobe. Wilt-Resistant. 80 days. Scarlet 
fruited Ieader of them all. The main-crop 
tomato for all purposes and satisfactory here 
and over the whole country. The largest and 
widest planted kind for home gardens, local 
markets and shipping. Its juice is delicious, 
it cans beautifully and red, and it gets the 
high market prices. Fruits are medium 
sized, uniform, smooth, globe shaped, heavy, 
solid, meaty and with a tough, protective 
skin. They are borne in clusters of 5 to 7 on 
bushy vines of medium to heavy growth. 
You can’t go wrong with Marglobe. 
Supreme Marglobe. Wilt-Resistant. 80 
days. Our super-selection strain, seeds from 
selected fruits and giving the most uniform, 
highest yielding, most dependable stock of 
tomatoes that you can plant. Here you have 
the greatest all-round, main-crop variety 
and best seed stock available. 
Dwarf Champion. 83 days. Pink fruited 
favorite in many gardens because of the 
dwarf, bushy, strong, compact plants which 
hold the fruit up off the ground without 
staking. Called the ‘‘Tree Tomato.”’ Fruits 
are medium and regular in size and flattened 
globe shape, with smooth skin, firm and at- 
tractive. A home garden tomato. 
Stone. 86 days. Scarlet fruited favorite 
late, main-crop tomato for many years. 
Extra large, smooth skin and bright red color. 
It is solid and meaty, greatly improved over 
the old strain, and good for all purposes. 
The vines are large and vigorous, highly 
productive of uniform, deep oval shaped 
fruits for attractive slicing and canning. 
Dwarf Stone. 88 days. Scarlet fruited and 
similar to Stone except very strong, dwarf 
plants. Like Dwarf Champion, it holds its 
huge fruit off the ground and is the largest 
dwarf or tree tomato. Fruits are about 4 in. 
across by 344 in. deep, a grand home garden 
sort for slicmg and canning. 
Ponderosa or Beefsteak. 88 days. Pink 
fruited and the biggest tomato to be grown. 
Greatly improved strain with no core, few 
seeds and appears to be nearly all meat. 
Even with its size, fruits are well shaped and 
make the most attractive big slices, very free 
from acidity. Vines are strong but must be 
staked to hold their crops, which they bear 
right up to frost. 
Oxheart. 88 days. Pink fruited big fellow 
like Ponderosa but is heart shaped, wide and 
tapering almost to a point. Fruits are very 
heavy and solid, borne in clusters of 3 to 7, 
having few seeds and smal seed cells. Heavy 
cropping variety, a novelty to look at and 
one of our best home garden varieties with 
plenty of thick slices. 
Yellow Plum. 73 days. Bright yellow oval 
or plum-shaped favorite for canning whole 
and also for salads on the table. Very 
prolific, very mild, interesting and attractive. 
About 2 in. Jong. 
Red Pear. 73 days. Small scarlet, distinctly 
pear-shaped and produced in large clusters 
over a long season. It’s best to stake plants 
to keep them off the ground. Eat them, can, 
preserve or pickle them whole. They are 
delicious. 
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WATERMELON 
The South is known for its big, sweet, 
juicy melons and to have them at their 
best we must grow them or have a kindl 
friend with enough land and heart to rarhten 
them vine ripened. 
Culture—Use well drained, light, rich soil, 
new or fresh land rf available, for fine water- 
melons. After soil is warm, plant 6 or 8 seeds 
in each hill, 10 ft. apart each way, and thin 
to 3 or 4 strong plants after rough leaves 
have formed. Cultivate often, as long as 
you can, then pull out weeds and grass. 
Feeding should be done before planting, usin 
400-800 Ibs. per acre of a good Bore Gat 
fertilizer. Spray vines regularly with Bor- 
deaux Mixture. 
Halbert Honey. 85 days. Earliest and one 
of the sweetest of our good Southern melons. 
It weighs about 30 Ibs. when well grown, 
oblong, with a dark green, thin, brittle rind 
that doesn’t stand shipping. The rich red 
heart, without strings, Is meaty and sugary, 
delicious for home and nearby market use. 
Kleckley Sweet. 86 days. Like Halbert 
Honey, this is a thin rind, glossy, dark green, 
oblong melon, with very sweet, rich red 
flesh for home gardens. It is one of the 
earliest, slightly necked or smaller at one 
end and a favorite for many years. 
Wondermelon. 88 days. Also called 
Improved Kleckley Sweet, this is a handsome 
big, 30-40 Ib., oblong, dark green melon with 
rather thin, tough rind and rich scarlet 
flesh. It is being shipped and it is an espe- 
cially fine home and nearby market variety. 
It is regular in shape, larger, better in every 
way than Kleckley Sweet, and our biggest 
selling oblong melon. You will be delighted 
with its big, generous heart and beautiful 
appearance. 
Stone Mountain. 88 days. The sweetest 
and best all-round melon, for home, market 
and shipment. Others have thicker, tougher 
rinds for shipping but lack Stone Mountain’s 
cool sweet taste and delicious flavor. This 
is a big, medium dark green, lightly veined 
oval, blunt ended melon, weighing 30 to 50 
Ibs. on good Iand. Flesh is very thick, fine- 
grained, crisp, tender and sweetest of all. 
It stands drought and heat better than others, 
too. 
Dixie Queen. 90 days. Our biggest selling 
variety and rightly so. While not as sweet 
as Stone Mountain, it is the same blunt- 
oval shape. Its greenish gray skin is ir- 
regularly striped with dark green, the most 
spectacular of melons and most tempting 
on the market. Richly colored, sweet, juicy, 
firm flesh, appearing mostly all heart be- 
cause of the small white seeds. Its tough 
rind allows rough shipping and it sells on 
sight. 30-40 Ibs.; color picture on Page 21. 
Thurmond Gray. 90 days. Grayish green 
skin on a handsome, uniformly large, oblong 
melon. And, this is the best of long shippers. 
Flesh is deep red, crisp, tender, stringless 
and fine-grained, for excellent eating quali- 
ties. The rind is very tough and the melon 
stands up well after being shipped. 30-40 
Ibs. 
Tom Watson. 95 days. The standard long 
dark green melon for shipping. It weighs 
30-40 Ibs., of uniform cylindrical shape and 
with tough, elastic rind. Flesh is bright red, 
firm, coarse grained, of good flavor. Melons 
are good keepers, retaining their fresh ap- 
pearance. Also used for home and nearby 
markets. 
Florida Giant. 95 days. The monster 
Cannonball melon, weighing up to 100 Ibs.; 
oval-round with blunt ends, dark green skin 
and thick rind. Flesh is firm and solid, but 
naturally with its size, It is coarse. grained 
and quality and flavor are not comparable to 
smaller sized varieties. For largest size, pinch 
off all but 1 or 2 melons from a vine after 
giving ample space, good soil and initial 
fertilization. 
