Improved Advance 
Comatoes 
1 oz. to 2,000 plants; %4 lb. per acre. 
All our tomato seeds are grown from stocks, exclusively for seed purposes, by the originators, experienced grow- 
ers and experts. We are fully convinced of the merit of all varieties before offering them in our catalog, and can 
strongly recommend our strains as being absolutely reliable. 
For early, the seed should be sown in hotbeds during February or the first week in March, in drills 5 inches 
apart and half an inch deep. Later sowing may be made until the last of April. When the plants are 3 or 4 inches 
high they should be set out 4 or 5 inches apart in another hotbed or cold frame, or removed into small pots allow- 
ing a single plant to the pot. Expose to the air as much as possible to harden. Water freely at time of transplanting, 
and shelter from the sun a few days until the plants are established. Set out May 5th to 10th according to weather 
(or 3 weeks earlier if protected with Hotkaps) spacing 3 to 5 ft. apart. Cultivate thoroughly as long as the vines 
will permit, but the last two or three workings should be very shallow or the crop may be badly injured, especially 
if the cultivator is run too near the plants. 
Days indicated represent approximate time from set- 
ting of plants to first picking. It takes 4 or 5 weeks to 
grow plants. 
(64 days) An extra early, 
Improved Advance large tomato of high quality, 
round or slightly flattened shape, and exceptionally 
smooth for such an early variety. As early and hardy as 
Earliana and yielding. more fruit both in the first and 
subsequent pickings. It is more shapely, more free from 
cracks and shows less green about the stem than other 
extra early sorts. With Improved Advance the grower 
can produce a crop which will stand superior in appear- 
ance and quality, in competition with the other extra 
earlies and command the fancy prices of an early market. 
(70 days) Winner of a Gold Medal 
scarletsDawn a aga ay een ems 
This cross of Clark’s Early with Marglobe has the shape 
and structure of Marglobe, but a brighter scarlet color 
and very prolific. Excellent shipping variey and also 
desirable for home growing. 
Sioux (70 days) Developed at Nebraska Exp. Sta. 
from cross of All Red and Stokesdale. It is 
extra early, globe shaped, medium size, thick walled and 
juicy. Plant relatively open with finely divided leaves; 
ripens uniformly. Does well in hot dry seasons. 
PRICES 
Beef Steak 
Bounty 
Earliana 
Greater Baltimore (Ind.). 
Hybrid C 18x21.... 
Improved Advance 
Jubilee Golden 
Marglobe (Certified) 
Oxheart 7 ec ese 
Ponderosa s3., cee hehe 
Pritchard’s Scarlet Topper 
Rutgers (Certified) 
Scarlet Dawn 
SlOUX voice ree 
Southland : 
Stokesdale (Certified 
Stone (Improved) 
Urbana 
Valiant 
eee ee 
10 
Oz. 
$1.00 
85 
85 
85 
40 
%4,Lb. Lb. 
$3.00 
2.50 
2.50 
2.50 
1.25 
oz. $3.85; Oz. 
1.00 
1.50 
65 
1.50 
1.00 
-40 
-65 
-00 
1.00 
1.35 
-65 
.00 
2.00 
-75 
SMALL FRUITED 
Pear Shaped Yellow ..... 
Red) Cherry, 2.)..5: 4. 
Red Plum efeyene: sehen 
San Marzano (Paste) Red 
Yellow Plum 
eevee 
Ce ? 
10 
-10 
10 
-10 
-10 
75 
1.15 
1.35 
1.50 
75 
3.50 
2.00 
4.50 
3.50 
1.25 
2.00 
1.50 
2.85 
4.00 
2.00 
1.50 
6.00 
2.25 
2.50 
3.50 
4.00 
4.50 
2.50 
$7.50 
7.50 
7.50 
4.00 
$12.50 
10.00 
6.00 
10.00 
4.00 
6.00 
5.00 
8.50 
12.00 
6.00 
4.50 
20.00 
6.50 
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J. MANNS & CO., BALTIMORE 2, MD. 
Superior Seeds 
