. Burpee's seeds that grow for 1900 : wholesale catalogue for market gardeners, florists, and farmers' clubs. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Burpee's FORDHOOK FANCY Tomato. The plant is most distinct, being of dwarf, bush-like growth. The stout stems and branches are stiffly erect even when well set with fruits. The habit is so dwarf and compact that twice the ordinary num- ber of plants may be grown on a given area, and the fruits are much more easily gathered. Even in rich ground the plants may
. Burpee's seeds that grow for 1900 : wholesale catalogue for market gardeners, florists, and farmers' clubs. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Burpee's FORDHOOK FANCY Tomato. The plant is most distinct, being of dwarf, bush-like growth. The stout stems and branches are stiffly erect even when well set with fruits. The habit is so dwarf and compact that twice the ordinary num- ber of plants may be grown on a given area, and the fruits are much more easily gathered. Even in rich ground the plants may be set two to two and a half feet apart, and the soil can be kept free from weeds ami the ripe fruits gathered more easily than when the ordinary type is planted four feet apart each way. The leaves are single, very broad, and of thick substance; dark green, heavily blistered or crimped as in a fine Savoy Cabbage, entirely distinct from the somewhat fern-like leaf of the ordinary Tomato. When the young plants are first started, these leaves and their manner of growing on the stalk exactly resemble those of a young potato plant. The fruits are of medium size, very smooth and regular in form, solid and of sweet flavor. When ripened under the warm sun they are a rich purplish red; later, or in cool locations, they are of a deep-red color, very glossy. They are borne in clusters close to the stalks, and are produced gener- ally at every second leaf, in- stead of at every third, as is the case with Tomatoes of spreading growth. Consequently, while the plants are so ex- tremely dwarf, they are fully as prolific as the taller plants of the old type. The ripe fruits keep in excellent condition for a consider- able length of time ; when sliced, they present a solid meaty center with small seed-cells. Owing to the stout, vigorous growth and freedom in s e 11 i n j fruits in cool weather, Fordhook fi§ Fancy will be of great value for cool and exposed locations; they ripen extremely earl
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