5. Hybuid Tomatoes. 
ALL CREATED ON BURPEE’S FORDHOOK FARMS 
Unsurpassed for quality, uniformity and yield. Every seed from a hand pollinated fruit. 
1131 BURPEE’S BIG BOY 
Shown in color on the inside back cover 
78 days. Largest of our true, first generation (F,) 
Hybrid tomatoes; unsurpassed in every way. 
Well grown fruits average 10 ozs. 
with some weighing 1 lb. or more. Un- 
like other large fruited varieties, Big 
Boy tomatoes are perfectly smooth, 
deep globe to deep oblate in shape and 
very firm; scarlet-red skin, thick 
walls, with bright red meaty flesh of 
fine flavor and excellent quality. At its 
peak of performance in midseason, 
although large fruits are produced 
late in the season when many stand- 
ard varieties decline in yield and size 
of fruit. An ideal hybrid for the home 
garden and market grower, especially 
roadside sales. 
Plants are very large, extremely 
vigorous, semi-upright to spreading; 
moderately dense dark green foliage 
protects the fruits from sun scald. 
Pkt. (30 seeds) 50¢; 2 pkts. 90¢; 
3 pkts. $1.25; 5 pkts. $1.90 
‘*_T have been raising tomatoes for 20 years, 
but your Big Boy is the best I ever grew. 
I cannot praise it enough. It is all you claim 
it to be and then some. Four tomatoes 
weighed 3% lbs... .”’ 
R. Calderone, Akron, Ohio 
““_Burpee’s Big Boy Tomato plants grew 
6 and 7 ft. high, one with 92 fruits on it; every 
one of my 33 vines had 50 or more tomatoes 
on them, the fruits ranging from 10 ozs. to 
1 Ib. each. One of my visitors told me he had 
been growing tomatoes for 22 years and never 
saw or heard of any like Big Boy... .” 
A. J. ThrunBufialo; Neve 





Burpee's 
Big Boy 
Giant Hybrid 

1121 FORDHOOK HYBRID — cary 
Named after Burpee’s Fordhook Farms 
60 days. Highly prolific, early, long bearing, true, first 
generation (I;) hybrid noted for its uniformly shaped, Sow seed in a hotbed, or in a shallow box in the house, 
smooth fruits which are of medium size, average 6 ozs. allowing 6 to 8 weeks to produce plants large enough for 
in weight, oblate to globular in shape and borne most setting outdoors when weather becomes |wanmsaEteur, 
How to Grow Tomatoes 
friable soil of medium fertility is best for starting the seed. 
Cover seed with % in. of fine soil or sand. Keep soil moist 
but not too wet and avoid excessive drying. If seed is sown 
in container, keep it in a warm place (65 to 70°). When 
freely in large clusters. Colors evenly to a clear bright 
red all over; flesh is solid and mildly acid sweet. Seed 
cavities are small; interior is firm. Plants begin to bear 
early and continue to produce profusely through the seedlings are about 2 in. tall, transplant to stand 4 in. apart 
season. Fordhook Hybrid is of value for early market each way, or pot singly in 3 in. pots. Plant outdoors when 
and home garden. Pkt. (30 seeds) 35¢; all danger of frost is past in rows 3 to 4 ft. apart each way, if 
2 pkts. 65¢; 3 pkts. 90¢; 5 pkts. $1.45 to be grown untrained and unpruned; if supported on stakes, 
plants may be set 18 to 24 in. apart in the row, except 
IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ slates bee should rs spaced 2 Fs 21% ft. apart in the 
row. Disturb roots as little as possible when transplanting. 
HYBRID TOMATOES If you stake your plants, train them to a single stem sid 
Hybrid Tomatoes are strong, vigorous growers and outyield pinch off side shoots when very small. These side shoots de- 
regular varieties, the extra quantities coming, in large measure, velop at the joint where a leaf joins the main stem. Keep a 
from the soil. It can be readily understood that because Hybrid close watch for such shoots, as it takes only a few days for 
Tomatoes have the ability to produce larger plants and higher them to grow into a branch of good size, when they are 
yield they must be fed more than standard tomatoes. Therefore, troubl t 
to produce a maximum crop of large fruits, we recommend that mec phat so tage aged ee ach, 
you maintain good fertility and moisture in your soil. For this Where Sune are long, seed of standard varieties may 
purpose, it is desirable to make your fertilizer application at the be sown directly outdoors when soil and weather get warm. 
time of planting and, if possible, cover the ground around the plants When plants are large enough to transplant, set them 
with well-rotted manure when plants begin to bloom or set their where they are to remain; such plants will come into bear- 
first fruit. Keep well watered during dry spells. 
Each hybrid tomato seed is produced by hand pollination which 
requires a great deal of work and entails a heavy expense. We 
strongly urge that special care and attention be given to the sowing 
ing later than those started earlier indoors or in a hotbed. 
Days to maturity given in the descriptions are from field 
setting of the plants until first usable fruits are ready. Sizes 
of the seed and the growing of the crop. Extra care will repay you and weights of tomatoes mentioned in descriptions are for 
in better fruits and a bigger yield. Rig? the general field-run of fruits. A pkt. of standard tomato 
seeds will produce about 200 plants; 1 9z. 5000 to 6000. 
104 .. W. ATLEE BURPEE CO., Seed Growers 

