Title: Childs' rare flowers, vegetables and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_20 (find matches)
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Grand New Tomato, Top Notch The EarliestâThe Best Medium SizeâThe Most Perfect in Shape and ColorâThe Least Vine The Most FruitâThe Longest in Bearing and KeepingâThe Least AcidâThe Sweetest Tomato, and in Every Respect the Best for Home or Market. With qualities as brilliant as the Comet. Top-Notch has, as it were, dropped from the sky a perrect Tomato, in every quality that can he named it is superior to any other; earliest, large, round and smooth, uniform in size and .shape, and rich, ruby color. It makes very little vine, but bears enormous quantities of Truit, fifty to seventy large, perfect Tomatoes to a plant which covers very little area. In quality it Tar outranks any other variety, for it lacks the objectionable acid or other sorts. People who suffer bad effects from the acid of Tomatoes â wifl enjoy Top-Notch. Begins ripening- very early and continues all the season. It is most decidedly the finest Tomato for market and the best for the home garden. Per pkt., lie; 2 pkts. for 25c; %-oz., 60c; 1 oz., §1.00. New Early Tomato, John Baer "John Baer" Tomato is the result of fifteen gen- erations of improvement and selection for easi- ness, quality, shape, fruit, color and Shipping â¢quality. It produces the most perfect high crown Tomatoes ever grown and enormous crip, fifty to one hundred to each plant. Ripens evenly, right up to the stem. No cripples, no scalds, no blight, no cracked, no wrinkled, no one-sided, uneven scarred fruit. When dead ripe will not burst. Has a wonderful glistening bright red color, a mud, deliciously sweet flavor. In shape and form exactly like its photograph. It is almost seedless. It has just enough Toliageâwill stand plenty or manuring without going to vine. "John Baer" is the most perfect shipping To- mato ever grown; weight, about 6% ounces. We llnd it to lie a wonderful Tomato m miny ways, and will surely disappoint no one. regardless of high expectations which mav he entertained. Per pkt., loc: 3 pkts. for â¢.â¢.".<â¢; oz.. 50c. Tomato Snowball â At last we have a Tomato so white that it shows only a faint tinge or straw color. This tint will probably vary a little in different soils, climates and at different times of the year. But for all practical purposes it is a white Tomato, the most beautirul fruit vou «ver saw, large, smooth, very solid and meatv. and of very finest quality. Pkt.. 10c.

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