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ABOUT TOMATOES 
Tomatoes differ in size, quality, season of ripening, adapt- 
ability to different soil and growing conditions, etc. Import- 
ant class to the market gardener are sorts of good size and 
quality and of early maturity. 
In this class the most popular varieties are: Firesteel, 
Rutgers, 100% and Break O’ Day. Every gardener located 
North should try every one of the four named varieties. In 
pink colored tomatoes the best at present are: Marvelous 
Pink Globe and Cooper’s Special. Tomato growers located 
in the North must not grow pink colored tomatoes because 
pink colored tomatoes are hard to sell in the North, same as 
red or scarlet fruited tomatoes are hard to sell on the mar- 
kets of the South. 
New varieties are created every year and what was a 
popular shipping tomato last year becomes a back number 
the year to come. We believe that the new Firesteel tomato 
will prove high class to grow in the South for shipping North. 
The small fruited tomatoes as well as the white and 
yellow colored sorts, together with such varieties as Ox- 
heart and Ponderosa are of hardly any interest to the 
market grower. 
FIRESTEEL TOMATO—Firesteel will displace many a va- 
riety now popular as soon as it will be known that Firesteel 
is: Extra early. Large and solid. Produces fruit under al- 
most any kind of growing conditions. 
HOW TO GROW TOMATOES ON STAKES 
Early in June place 5 foot stakes within two inches of 
the base of each plant. With a sharp blade reduce each 
plant to three of the strongest branches and tie these to the 
stakes, using soft but stout string. Remove all side shoots 
at the base of each plant and all suckers which develop at 
the leaf joints. When the plants reach the top of the stakes 
begin to prune out the centers also. Staked tomatoes yield 
30 to 40% more of perfect fruit than plants that spread over 
the ground and the plants bear earlier. 
TOMATOES FOR CANNERIES 
As an answer to many inquiries, we say that canners 
favor Improved Stone and Greater Baltimore. Most cap 
neries furnish the seed to the growers. If the choice of the 
variety is left to you, try besides the two named our 100% 
variety or Norton, if your land is infested with disease. Both 
are wilt and disease resistant varieties. 
TOMATOES UNDER GLASS 
In the North seed is generally started in January. No use 
to start earlier. During the dark winter months tomatoes will 
not set fruit, the blossoms fall off. 
Sow in flats, transplant into 214’s when the plants are 
about 4 inches high, set them 15 inches each way, keep well 
watered and growing fast till they get to blooming. While 
in bloom water sparingly until the tomatoes set. When you 
get five clusters on the plants top them and water plenti- 
fully. Be careful in watering. Marglobe will not mildew 
even if the walks in the greenhouse are wet, but to be suc- 
cessful with most other sorts, Marvelous Globe and Cracker- 
jack included, you must grow them in a house with glass 
tight so there will be no drip and your walks must be dry. 
Some growers keep their tomatoes wet from start to finish 
which is a mistake. Watering, as we say, will result in a 
splendid crop. Crackerjack and Ideal Forcing runs about 
five fruits to the pound. For the earliest sales, while prices 
are highest, grow small fruited sorts like Crackerjack or 
Ideal Globe, for a later crop Marglobe or Marvelous Globe 
pay better. 
TOMATO OXHEART (90 days) 
A mighty attractive tomato, unusual in shape, meeting with 
instantaneous favor everywhere. Heart-shaped, pink in eolor, meaty 
and solid, of large size, specimens weighing two pools or over bein 
quite common. Almost seedless. Fairly early. Pkt. 10c; oz. $1.00. 
OUR SEEDS ARE TRUE TO NAME 
Of the Highest Quality—Fresh and Strongly Germinating—You can- 
not buy better seeds anywhere, no matter what price you pay. 
CONSULT the front pages of this catalog. You will find many 
important novelties listed on those pages. 
DE GIORGI BROTHERS CO. 
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‘PURPLE TOP WHITE GLOBE SELECT 
Our select Purple Top produces beautiful, globe shaped 
turnips, clear, bright purple at the top and snow-white at 
the bottom without small side roots. Flesh sweet, never bit- 
ter at all stages of growth. Absolutely the finest strain to 
be had. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. $1.00; 10 lbs. $9.00, prepaid. 
TURNIP ALL SEASONS (28 days) 
New. Globe shaped, white skinned, white fleshed Turnip 
that is ready four weeks after sowing no matter at what 
season the seed is sown. Retains its shape long after the 
roots are fully formed and stays sweet even during hot and 
dry weather. This may be hard to believe yet it is a fact. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; lb. $2.00. 
TURNIP SHOGOIN 
Produces globe shaped roots with smooth skin and upright 
foliage furnishing the highest class of ‘‘greens.’’ Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; 
lb. $1.20, prepaid. 
SURE CROP TOP TURNIP 
Yields a big crop of “greens” in hot and dry weather and 
is the only variety grown for tops that will come through, 
when sown during hot summer months from June to Septem- 
ber, when Seven Top is out of the question. The tops of 
Sure Crop are of dense, robust, upright, compact growth and 
practically free from insects and louse. It is claimed that 
once tried. prepared for table, it is preferred to other turnip 
greens, because the leaves of Sure Crop are of milder taste, 
fine flavored, tender and free from acidity and bitterness. Of 
much quicker growth than Seven Top. Roots edible, globe 
shaped with pearly white skin and white, mild, sweet flesh. 
Oz. 10c; 1 Ib. $1.20; 10 Ibs. $11.00; Pkt. 5c. 
SEVEN TOP (Winter Greens)—Grown exclusively for its 
tops which are produced in great quantity. Roots are not 
edible, being coarse and woody. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; lb. $1.00; 
10 Ibs. $9.00, prepaid. 
FANCY TURNIPS 
To get richly coJored, fancy turnips of any of the purple 
top varieties, you must not allow the roots to crowd one 
another out of the ground. And you must not aNow the roots 
to starve from lack of water. Properly thinned out, you will 
get beautiful roots from the seed we send out. 
SUPREME MARGLOBE in Illinois. -One of our customers writes 
under the date of Sept. 1, 1944 as follows: I want to tell you about 
the Supreme Marglobe tomato seed I bought of you last spring. I set 
about 600 Supreme Marglobe plants and I never saw such tomatoes 
in my 40 years of growing tomatoes, I never seen so many on 4 
vine and hundreds of them would average a pound each. From Mr. 
J. B. G., Decatur, TIlinots. 
