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TOMATO 
Sow in hotbeds or indoor flats using fresh soil. Keep the young plants free of insects 
and about 6 weeks later when danger of frost 1s past transplant to reasonably rich 
soil, setting the plants 3-4 ft. apart. Various methods of staking and training the vines 
are in use and the grower should adopt the one best suited to his circumstances. 

Jefferson 
Beefsteak (Red Ponderosa): 9() days. The Asgrow 
strain is wilt-resistant. Very large, flat, scarlet 
fruits. 
Clark’s Special Early (Bonny Best: John Baer): 
72 days. Medium large fruits, globular, bright 
scarlet, smooth. Popular for shipping. 
Earliana: 66 days. A first early, bright red, 
thick-flat tomato of medium size. 
Garden State: 84 days. Partially resistant to 
Fusarium wilt and late blight; fruits flattened 
globe shape, thick-walled and mild flavored. 
Golden Queen: 84 days. The standard yellow 
variety. Fruits flattish globe and solid. 
Greater Baltimore: 82 days. Large, thick-flat, 
deep red, solid fruits. The Asgrow strain is 
earlier, more uniform, deeper and free from 
ridges and cracks. 
Gulf State Market: 80 days. For Southern ship- 
pers. Globular, purplish pink, and thick-skinned. 
Jefferson: 82 days. Our recent introduction for 
general use. Plant vigorous and prolific, resist- 
ant to Fusarium wilt. Fruits dark red, globe- 
shaped, relatively free from cracking. 
June Pink (Pink Earliana): 69 days. Very early; 
flattened globe, medium size. 
Longred: 75 days. Plant medium sized with 
many branches; leaves abundant. Fruits glob- 
ular, solid and well colored. 
Marglobe: 77 days. A popular variety for local 
or distant markets. Strong plants with heavy 
foliage; fruits medium large, nearly globular, 
smooth, solid, thick-walled, and scarlet. 
Norton: 88 days. A wilt-resistant variety, simi- 
lar to Stone, with large, flattened globe, deep 
red fruits. 
Pearson: 85 days. A vigorous, self-topping type 
used in California for shipping and canning. 
Medium sized, scarlet, semi-globe fruits. 
Ponderosa: 90 days. Large spreading vines with 
very big, flat, pink fruits, apt to crack but solid, 
sub-acid and of excellent flavor. 
Pritchard (Scarlet Topper): 76 days. A popular 
wilt-resistant, self-topping or self-pruning va- 
riety. Fruits of good size and solid; globular. 
Rutgers: 86 days. An excellent main crop 
variety, now the most extensively planted and 
very widely adapted. Strong, prolific plants; 
large, bright red fruits of fine quality, near- 
globe shape, very attractive. 
San Marzano: 8() days. Fruits rectangular, 3” x 
114”, in clusters. The Asgrow strain is notably 
solid; deep red flesh with little juice. 
Scarlet Dawn: 70 days. All-America Gold 
Medal, 1935. Vines medium, fairly open and 
very prolific. Fruits globular, smooth, thick- 
walled, bright scarlet, ripening well to the 
stems. An exceptionally attractive early variety. 
Sioux: 70 days. Fruits globular, medium size, 
thick-walled and practically free from hard core. 
This variety possesses the uniform ripening 
factor. 
Southland: 85 days. Plant vigorous with high 
resistance to disease. Fruits slightly flattened 
globe, well colored and free from puff. Intro- 
duced in 1948. 
Stokesdale: 73 days. Fruits of near globe shape, 
smooth, of good size and fine red color. A pro- 
lific, widely adapted second early variety. 
Stone: 86 days. Large, thick-flat, deep, smooth, 
scarlet fruits of fine quality. 
Valiant: 70 days. Adapted to short-season areas 
and the early market. Fruits globe-shaped, 
bright scarlet. 
