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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): 90 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 
tidges 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. 
Plant medium sized with 
Fruits glob- 
Longred: 75 days. 
many branches; leaves abundant. 
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 
vety widely adapted. Strong, prolific plants; 
large, bright red fruits of fine quality, near- 
globe shape, very attractive. 
San Marzano: 80 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. 
