Childs' combination catalogue for 1910 : flower seeds vegetable seeds summer bulbs hardy bulbs and plants house plants shrubs new fruits and dutch or full bulbs . and very much earlier than any other large first-class sort- Unlike other early Tomatoes Baseball is not small but extra large; one of the very largest, and by all odds the smoothest, heaviest and most solid variety in cultivation. It has very little seed cavity but has solid flesh pulp, tender, aud free from all traces of coarseness or green core. It is a tich crimson color throughout and of unsurpassed quality. By all odds the Toma
Childs' combination catalogue for 1910 : flower seeds vegetable seeds summer bulbs hardy bulbs and plants house plants shrubs new fruits and dutch or full bulbs . and very much earlier than any other large first-class sort- Unlike other early Tomatoes Baseball is not small but extra large; one of the very largest, and by all odds the smoothest, heaviest and most solid variety in cultivation. It has very little seed cavity but has solid flesh pulp, tender, aud free from all traces of coarseness or green core. It is a tich crimson color throughout and of unsurpassed quality. By all odds the Tomato for both the home garden and the market gardener. 15c. per pkt.: 3 pkts., for 30c.: oz.« Ruby Queen—Tomato of enormous size, and as smooth as an apple. Its color is the deepest and darkest crimson-red, very rich and beautiful. It is very solid, very thin skin, and its flesh throughout is most tender. It has not a particle of coarseuess or toughness, It is just the sort you would choose for your own table above all others. It is much like the Golden Jubilee, except in color, and is perhaps rounder and smoother in shape. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c,. Great Mississippi—A. W. Martin, Duncan. Miss., first wroteus as follows: I have grown a wonderful Tomato is eight feet two inches high and has a circumferenceof 15K feet. It has ripened 167 Tomatoes on it and asmany blossoms, and still it grows. As to the flavor ofthe fruit, it is far more delicate and sweet than the com-mon Tomato. Other letters from the neighborhoodconfirmed Mr. Martins report and the Tomato evidentlycreated a genuine sensation. We grow a large crop of itand find it to be. as Mr. Martin says, a remarkable growerand cropper. While we had no specimen plants that cameup to his, we can readily believe that they might evenexceed that record if given special attention, as thegrowth and yield for ordinary field cultivation was per-fectly marvelous. The Tomatoes are of medium to largesize, bright, deep
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