COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 
Tomatoes 
CULTURE—1 oz. for 4,000 plants. 
One to two ounces of seed will produce enough plants 
for one acre. 
Sow in hot beds about March 1st, in rows 3 inches apart, 
transplant when 2 inches high in cold frames.. When plants 
are about 6 inches high set into the field, the early varieties 
in rows 4 feet apart and 3 feet in the rows and the late 
varieties, such as Stone or Great Baltimore, 5 feet apart 
and 4 feet apart in the rows. 
In the North it is advisable to tie plants to poles or trellis 
and prune the vines to some extent, so as to allow all light 
possible and hasten the crop to maturity. Tomatoes tied to 
stakes can be as close as two feet apart each way. 
Tomatoes will give a heavy crop on any fairly good soil. 
On freshly manured ground tomatoes make a heavy growth 
of vines, but the ripening of fruit is retarded. Never plant 
tomatoes after potatoes as bugs are sure to appear and 
damage the crop. Read the description of Tomato Earliana. 
Number of days: From setting plants to marketable 
fruits. 
Tomato Marvelous Pink Globe 
MARVELOUS PINK GLOBE (74 days) 
Fruit almost a perfect globe, large in size, solid and 
meaty, free from acidity, of bright rosy pink color, smooth, 
remarkably free from cracks around the steam, borne in 
clusters of 6 to 10. Vines medium heavy, very heavily pro- 
ductive. Because of its high quality and fine appearance, 
outsells all other pink tomatoes on the market. Pkt. 15c; 
oz. 80c; lb. $8.00. 
TOMATO BREAK 0’ DAY (70 days) 
Exceptionally resistant to wilt and nail-head rust. Fruits 
medium large, orange red, uniform, globe-shaped, smooth, 
walls not as thick as in Marglobe. Plant light, of open 
spreading habit with medium foliage. Heavily productive. 
The yellow cast in color and light vine growth are drawbacks 
to this variety. Pkt. 10c; oz. 40c; Ib. $4.00. 
Salsify- Oyster Plant 
Also called Vegetable Oyster, forms long, white somewhat mealy 
roots which are used the same as carrots or parsnips. Breaded and 
fried in butter it resembles Oysters in taste. Scorzonera or Black 
Salsify has even finer flavor than common Salsify and the roots are 
larger. The roots of both may be left in the ground over winter and 
used in the spring when fresh vegetables are hard to obtain. 
MOMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND—The roots are long, smooth, 
white in color, of uniform growth, the tops are grassy. Of excellent 
quality and delicate in flavor. kt. 10c; oz. 40c; 1 Ib. $4.00. 
SCORZONERA—BLACK SALSIEY—Considered by many better than 
white salsify. It has a flesh t#p-root resembling that of salsify in 
size and flavor and distinguished from it by the black color of the 
skin. Very hardy. Pkt. 10c; oz. 35c; Ib. $3.50. 
SWISS CHARD—See page 16. 
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TOMATO 100% (76 days) 
Large Wilt-Resistant Red—Early, Smooth, Solid 
Equally suitable for outside as well as for forcing. Ab- 
solutely wilt resistant, in fact 100% so. Proved immune to 
wilt in the field and under glass produced a splendid crop on 
clean vines free from wilt in a greenhouse that the year be- 
fore was full of wilt. Shaped like Bonny Best of larger size, 
more solid, deep dark red, most attractive in appearance. 
The vines are of vigorous growth yet without excessive foli- 
age, bearing heavily in clusters of 3 to 5 fruits of uniform 
size, almost free from culls. Pkt. 10c; oz. 45c. 
More Tomatoes 
BEEFSTEAK (90 days)—Fruit large, flat, scarlet. 
BONNY BEST (70 days gardens and for growing under 
glass. Fruit medium sized, round, smooth, bright scarlet, solid and 
o Tee with tart flavor. Pkt. 10c; oz. 45c; lb. $5.20. 
IMPROVED BONNY BEST (70 days)—Please note that this improved 
strain produces large extra smooth and solid fruit of notably high 
quality. Very important: The vines of this new strain have about two- 
thirds plants with regular tomato foliage and the rest are plants with 
broad or potato leaf foliage. We received complaints from customers 
that grow plants in flats for spring sales. Later some of these cus- 
tomers wrote: ‘“We never in the past had such fine quality of Bonny 
Best and we will want the same seed that produces regular and also 
broad leaved vines.’’ Pkt. 10c; oz. 45c; lb. $5.20. 
DWARF STONE (92 days)—Large fruit, heavy, solid, scarlet. 
CHALK’S EARLY JEWEL (73 days)—Bright scarlet, round, smooth. 
GOLDEN QUEEN (84 days)—Fine large yellow fruited sort. 
IMPROVED STONE (86 days)—Late, fruited large, scarlet, solid, 
meaty, productive, in a word, an excellent sort in every way. 
JOHN BAER (72 days)—Extra early, scarlet fruit of medium size. 
JUNE PINK (69 days)—Extra early, fruit large, pinkish. 
REDHEAD (73 days)—An improvement on Bonny Best. 
TREE TOMATO—A name applied to varieties of upright growth such 
as Dwarf Stone and Dwarf Champion. 
ANY ABOVE TOMATO—PKkt. 10c; oz. 45c; lb. $5.20, postpaid. 
VICTOR (68 days)—Fruit round, smooth, scarlet. Does well in the 
Far North. Pkt. 10c;. 02, 60c; Ib. $6.00 
BISON—Fruit scarlet, medium in size almost globe shaped. Ripens 
very early. The vine is compact so that the plants can be set 2 feet 
apart in the row without crowding one the other. The crop of fruit 
is simply immense. With us here in Iowa proved an absolutely 
worthless variety because the sun cooks the fruit causing it to fall 
off the vine before it is fully ripe. Far North we have but little 
doubt that Bison is a good performer. Pkt. 10c; om 50c; 
Popular for home and market 
TOMATO BOUNTY (63 days) 
Of great value to market growers on account of its earliness, 
bearing a heavy crop of solid, deep scarlet, smooth, globe shaped, 
good sized tomatoes (3 to 3% inches in diameter) a few days ahead 
of any other variety. It is not a eontinuous producer, staying in 
bearing condition saat about 6 weeks from date of first picking. 
Plants rather small of self-topping habit. Can be planted as close 
as 2 feet apart. Pkt. 10c; oz. 60c; Ib. $6.00, 
