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OXHEART, 90 days. An attractively pink-skinned variety. 
It is exceedingly smooth and tender and almost seedless. 
It has that delicious mild flavor. Rich soil adds greatly to its 
productiveness. A late variety. 
Oz., $2.00; “% Ib., $5.00; 1 Ib., $15.00, postpaid. 
STANTON GARDEN TOMATO, This new garden To- 
mato was developed by F. W. Stanton of Holland, Mich. 
Foliage is moderate and covers the fruit very well. Fruits 
are globe-shaped, uniform in size, about 21% to 3 inches in 
diameter. Medium to dark red color, solid fruit, some with 
very few seeds. Sold only in sealed packets of true hand 
counted and tested for germination, as follows: 
25 seeds, 25c; 100 seeds, 90c; 250 seeds, $1.75; 
300 seeds, $3.00; 1000 seeds, $5.00, postpaid. 
STOKESCROSS No. 4, 5! ozs. fruit ripens 80 days from 
transplanting. This brilliant Fz hybrid is already established 
as a Tomato of enormous importance. Its hybrid vigor is 
at once seen in its ability to produce large, solid, highly 
flavored fruit in quantity, fully 10 days in advance of Rut- 
gers. Under normal weather conditions it will be almost 
crack free, a factor probably due to its deeper root system. 
STOKESCROSS | No: 1 (1951). Formerly known as 
Stokescross No. ¥g-oz. fruit that ripens 70 days from 
transplanting. This new F; hybrid has been bred in Cuba, 
and is especially recommended for use by Tomato growers 
who can profit by a prodigious production of early ripening, 
brilliant fruit. It is essentially a market garden Tomato but 
it is likely to find an important place with the processors 
of the more northerly Tomato districts. The fruit some- 
what resembles Stokesdale but the plant is far more robust 
and will furnish better coverage. It carries a sparkling rich 
Tomato flavor. 
V4 oz., $1.25; V2 oz., $2.00; 1 oz., $3.75; 4 ozs., 
$10.00, postpaid. Available in larger quantities and 
special prices quoted on request. 
GRAND RAPIDS GROWERS, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan 
Oxheart Tomato 
SEED TREATMENT PAYS 
Treat your seeds with Semesan disinfectants and as- 
sure yourself of a crop. 
Seed treatment pays no matter what kind of seed is 
treated. We handle a complete line. 
Hybrid Tomatoes For Forcing 
“Just a Little More of Everything” 
Two important Hybrid Tomatoes, bred and grown by Mr. Roy H. Burghart, and introduced to the trade as a better and 
more vigorous Tomato that is more resistant to wilt and disease. They are ideal greenhouse forcing hybrids, and have 
“just a little more of everything” that is desirable in a Tomato. With increased production at a lower cost, we are able 
to offer these at lower prices, enabling greater distribution and a better crop at lower cost. 
SPARTAN HYBRID. This is a cross between Michigan 
State Forcing and Cooper's Special, and is an excellent green- 
house hybrid, a week earlier than the parents and about 20 
per cent more productive in weight and fruit. Color red, 
globular shape, medium size fruit, 5 to 6 ounces in weight, 
about three to pound; growing in clusters six to eight. A 
meaty Tomato, small seed cavity. Vine is more open, giving 
very uniform ripening of fruit. Being extra vigorous in 
growth, it is more resistant to both wilt and disease. 
Both of these Hybrids are put up in sealed packets: 
500 seeds, $4.00; 1000 seeds, $7.50; V4 oz., 
50 seeds, $1.00; 100 seeds, $1.50; 250 seeds, 
NORTHERN HYBRID. This is a cross between Michi- 
gan State Forcing and Sutton’s Best of All, and is an ideal 
greenhouse hybrid for northern growing, especially in 
CANADA and northern United States. In productivity it is 
similar to Spartan Hybrid, but is more vigorous in growing, 
particularly in dark fal] and winter weather which is 
prevalent in the North. Vine is open, permitting uniform 
ripening. Fruit is red in color, globular in shape, but is 
smaller, 4 to 5 ounces of solid fruit in clusters of ten to 
twelve. More resistant to wilt and disease on account of its 
vigorous growth. 
$2.50; 
$12.50; V2 oz., $20.00; oz., $35.00, postpaid. 
HYBRID TOMATO, FOREMOST E-21. 
to cracking and blossom end scars. The intermediate vine 
tremely vigorous and heavily productive. 
TOMATO. Michigan-Ohio Hybrid. A new Fi Tomato 
for greenhouse production. This cross was first made by 
Gortsema Bros. of Grand Rapids in 1950 and has been used 
in increasing volume each succeeding year for their crop as 
well as by other growers in this area. It has been carefully 
evaluated in comparative tests by Dr. $. H. Wittwer of the 
Michigan State College, for 3 years, where it has consistently 
proven superior to four of the leading varieties commonly 
grown in the midwest and Canada. The plant is large, vig- 
orous and indeterminate, being easily pruned and _ trained 
to a single stalk. Because of its prolific fruiting on the 
Jower clusters, this hybrid demands abundant water and 
nutrient supply after the first clusters have set fruit so that 
it may continue production at a high level, to the end of 
the crop. The fruit is red in color, globular in shape, and 
remarkably uniform in size. It is of excellent quality with 
a good interior color, thick outer walls and is comparable to 
has somewhat less spread than Rutgers, 
The fruit sizes have been well maintained right up to 
Trial packets containing about 200 seeds: $1.00; V4 oz., $2.75; V2 oz., $5.50; 
This is at least 10 days earlier than Rutgers in our Michigan plantings. Fruits 
are almost globular, deep scarlet-red, larger than Stokesdale and just about as large as Rutgers. 
They are notably resistant 
but the plants are ex- 
the end of the season. 
1 oz., $10.00, postpaid. 
Michigan State Forcing for firmness. In this respect it is 
superior to Spartan Hybrid. Its ability to set fruit in dark 
weather is also superior to Spartan Hybrid and the tests at 
Michigan State College as well as in commercial greenhouses 
have proven its ability to out-produce those varieties com- 
monly in use. The most outstanding characteristic of this 
new Hybrid is its extremely high resistance to common 
Fusarium Wilt. The seed we sell has been grown by Roy 
Burghart of Greenville, Mich., who states: “This new hybrid 
possesses enough good qualities to supplant the Spartan 
Hybrid even without its resistance to the Fusarium Wilt. 
The wilt resistance factor will be a life saver for many green- 
houses and I believe will subsantially reduce soil steaming 
costs for nearly all greenhouse Tomato growers.”’ Sold this 
year only in trial amounts. 
50 seeds, $1.00; 100 seeds, $1.50: 250 seeds, $2.50: 
00 seeds, $4.00, ponpaidiae oe 
All prices quoted herein are subject to change without notice. 
