GRAND RAPIDS GROWERS, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan Shs: 
Hybrid Tomatoes For Forcing 
HYBRID TOMATO, FOREMOST E-21. 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 to cracking and blossom end scars. The intermediate vine has somewhat less spread than Rutgers, but 
the plants are extremely vigorous and heavily productive. The fruit sizes have been well maintained right up to 
the end of the season. 
V4 oz., 80c; Y2 oz., $1.25; 1 oz., $2.50; Yq Ib. $9.00; Ye Ib., $17.50; 1 Ib., $35.00, postpaid. 
STOKESCROSS No. 4. 5’ ozs. fruit ripens 80 days trom 
transplanting. This brilliant F2 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. -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 fiavor. 
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. 
Spartan and Northern Hybrids 
“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 
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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 
greenhouse hybrid, a week earlier than the parents and 
about 20 percent 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 of 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. 
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 grow- 
ing, particularly in dark fall and winter weather which 
is prevalent in the North. Vine is open, permitting uni- 
form 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 ac- 
count of its vigorous growth. 
50 seeds $1.50; 100 seeds $2.00; 250 seeds $3.00; 500 seeds $6.00; 1000 seeds $10.00; 1% oz., 
$15.00; % oz., $27.50; 
TOMATO. Michigan-Ohio Hybrid. 4 new F, 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. S. H. Wittwer of the 
Michigan State College, for 3 years, where it has consis- 
tently proven superior to four of the leading varieties 
commonly grown in the midwest and Canada. The plant 
is large, vigorous and indeterminate, being easily pruned 
and trained to a single stalk. Because of its prolific fruiting 
on the lower 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 
1 oz., $50.00, postpaid. 
quality with a good interior color, thick outer walls and 
is comparable to 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 commonly in use. The most out- 
standing characteristic of this new Hybrid its 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 qual- 
ities to supplant the Spartan Hybrid even without its 
resistance to the Fusarium Wilt. The wilt resistance factor 
will be a life saver for many greenhouses and I believe 
will substantially reduce soil steaming costs for nearly 
all greenhouse Tomato growers.” ; 
50 seeds $1.50; 100 seeds $2.00; 250 seeds $3.00; 500 seeds $6.00; 1000 seeds $10.00; 1% oz., 
$15.00; 2 oz., $27.50; 
1 oz., $50.00, postpaid. 
All prices quoted herein are subject to change without notice. 
