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Porter’s Pride Tomato 
After many years of careful work, we are 
now able to offer you a new, larger Porter 
Everbearing Tomato, with fruits as big as 
you want. 
It has all the fine qualities of the original 
little Porter Tomato — Earliness, Hardiness, 
Fine Flavor, Heavy Yield, Continuous Bear- 
ing, Long-keeping Ability, and the Vigor that 
enables it to put on and ripen fruits EVERY 
DAY, from early to frost. 
The fruits are, by weight, four to five 
times as large as Porter Tomato. Tens of 
thousands of people agree with us that Porter 
Tomato has but one fault—the fruits are 
small; this new Porter’s Pride does away with 
that one fault. 
Like all hybrids, it is subject to variation in 
size and shape, but the ideal fruit is “round 
as a ball,” about 2% inches in diameter, 
bright, glossy red, solid, firm and heavy. Vine- 
growth is enormous. 
We have worked with Tomatoes a life-time, 
and have tested practically every kind and 
every strain of tomato—so we ought to 
KNOW tomatoes. In all sincerity, we tell you 
we believe this the most valuable tomato ever 
developed, and that it will largely take the 
place of other kinds for home use, for local 
market, and for long hauling—especially in 
areas of light rainfall. 
Packet (100 live seed) 25c. 
Note: Please read carefully the description of Porter 
Tomato below, and remember, this new Porter’s Pride is 
just the same, except fruits are round, and four to five 
times as big. 
The Porter Tomato 
Note: The seed we offer you here is the very ‘Last 
Word” in Improved Porter Tomato Seed. 
This is a distinct, “different”? tomato with 
every good quality but one. We make this 
strong statement after having tested practi- 
cally every strain of tomato, and after reading 
many thousands of reports from our cus- 
tomers. 
Here Are Its Good Qualities— 
Fruits are always smooth. Of the tens of 
thousands we have used, we have never found 
ONE which was even slightly wrinkled. 
Color is always the brightest red. 
Fruits never have a hard core or center. 
Fruits never sun-scald or crack, unless after 
a rain, and then not badly, like other kinds. 
Fruits ripen evenly from end to end. 
It is early, and will make when planted 
later than other kinds. One year, we planted 
the 1st and 15th of each month ’til August 1. 
The July 1st planting ripened fruits in 71 
days; August ist planting began ripening 
October 22. 
The flavor could not be better. A market 
gardener, who sells all kinds of vegetables 
and fruits, tells us he has never sold anything 
for which there is so great a demand—after 
he gets his customers to trv it, and they find 
how good it is. 
Flesh is firm, and skin so thick that it can 
be easily stripped off. It does not “munge-up” 
in cooking. The firm flesh is perfect for mak- 
ing preserves and thick, fruity juice. 
It bears until frost, no matter how hot and 
dry. Ripe fruits can be picked EVERY DAY; 
our customers call it Porter’s EVERBEAR- 
ING Tomato. 
Certainly, it is the surest to make under 
unfavorable conditions. In 1944, during the 
awful drouth, reports from tke dry sections 
of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico stated 
that Porter Tomato was bearing right on, af- 
ter other kinds had died from lack of rain. 
It produces well on any kind of land—even 
in soil so poor that other kinds fail complete- 
ly. Many reports state that it is ideal for 
the heavy, black lands of North, Central and 
South Texas. We grow it to perfection on a 
red-clay hill. 
Yet, it does better and produces more and 
larger fruits in rich, loamy soil with plenty 
of moisture. We once watered a few vines in 
rich soil, and the yield was simply un- 
believable. = 
It makes more fruits to the vine. We have 
counted over 350 on one vine at one time, and as 
fruits mature, it puts on more. Really, a dozen 
vines in rich soil will keep the average family 
in fresh tomatoes all season. 
It keeps long after ripening. We have kept 
fruits in hot weather FIVE weeks after they 
were full ripe. In November, we put mature 
fruits in shallow boxes, without wrapping or 
treating in any way—and we ate the last of 
them in March. Thus the “fresh tomato sea- 
son” is extended until far later than with 
other kinds. 
Here Is Its One Fault 
Fruits are not large—about the size and 
shape of a “Pullet” egg. It sets so many to 
the vine they CAN’T be big, though it makes 
large vine-growth. Our grower works to make 
the fruits larger, without damaging its other 
geod qualities, and every year they grow 
igger. 
If you have not planted our freshly im- 
proved seed, you will be agreeably surprised 
at ets improvement made in the last year 
or two. 
Packet (150 live seed) 15c. 
Porter’s Yellow Tomato 
_ Exactly like Porter Tomato, with all its 
fine qualities of Earliness, Hardiness, Heavy 
Yield, Fine Flavor, and Long-keeping ability, 
except this is a bright, clear yellow. 
Packet (150 live seed) 15c. 
Porter’s Scarlet Globe 
Sixteen years ago we crossed Porter Tomato 
and Marglobe, to get. the good qualities of 
the little tomato, and the larger-fruited kind. 
It has every good quality of Porter Tomato, 
and the fruits, by weight, are just twice as 
large. 
Packet (150 live seed) 25c. 
Larger Scarlet Globe 
Exactly the same as Scarlet Globe, except 
the fruits are not so beautifully uniform, but 

