D Landreth Seed Company D. Landreth Seed Company : [catalog] DLandrethSeedCo00LandC Year: 19uu Partial View of Twenty-acre Field of Landreths' Red Rock Tomato, of which special Variety . there is of crop 1911 105 acres planted on Bloomsdale Farms out of a total of 152 acres. These Red Rock Tomatoes are large but not overgrown, are smooth, meaty, not too watery, free from cracks, core, depression at the stem end. Also free from black spot, exempt from disease on stalk and leaf. Tomatoes grown on Bloomsdale are all passed through a squeezing machine, something similar to a cider press and the
D Landreth Seed Company D. Landreth Seed Company : [catalog] DLandrethSeedCo00LandC Year: 19uu Partial View of Twenty-acre Field of Landreths' Red Rock Tomato, of which special Variety . there is of crop 1911 105 acres planted on Bloomsdale Farms out of a total of 152 acres. These Red Rock Tomatoes are large but not overgrown, are smooth, meaty, not too watery, free from cracks, core, depression at the stem end. Also free from black spot, exempt from disease on stalk and leaf. Tomatoes grown on Bloomsdale are all passed through a squeezing machine, something similar to a cider press and the pulp afterwards washed in the clear running water of the Delaware River. Field of Fifteen Acres of the Tomato, Landreths' R,ed Rock.—Another view of part of the 105 acres of this variety under cultivation during the Summer 1911. These Tomato Fields partly indicate the extent of the Bloomsdale Fann cultivations which cover annually additionally about 50 acres in Cabbage, 15 acres in Kale, 25 acres in Radish, 12 acres in Onion Seeds, ; 20 ' ' Collards, 40 ' ' Turnip, 25 ' ' Onion Sets, 20 ' ' Beans, and a long list of smaller acreages in Mustard, Okra, Cucumber, Squash, Peias, Pumpkin, Parsnip, :Spinacli, Sugar Com, Lettuce, Carrot, Beet, Melons, Peppers, Potatoes, Scarlet Sage, Flower Seeds, Grain and Grass, and many other crops, a never-ceasing routine of Seed-growing arid Crop harvesting, comprehending quite 150 distinct Varieties. A few of the farm buildings are seen in distance. Mail! us vour order for ' Seeds which Succeed.' (14)
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