Title: Moore and Simon's seed buyers guide and wholesale price list : market gardeners, florists and other large buyers
Identifier: CAT31285806 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Moore & Simon (Philadelphia, Pa. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Moore & Simon
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Cermaa, Liebesapfal. French, Tomafe. Spanish. Tomate. TOMATO I oz. for 1,500 plants. Quarter pound (to transplant) for an acre. Thi6 seed should be sown early in March in a hotbed, greenhouse, or inside the window or sitting room, where a nighc temperature of not less than sixty degrees is kept, in drills five Inches apart and half an inch deep. When the plants are about two inches high, they should beset out three inches apart in boxes three inches deep or potted into three-inch pots, allowing a single plant to a pot. They are sometimes shifted a second lime into larger pots, by which process the plants are rendered more sturdy and branching. About the middle of May, in this latitude, the plants may be set in the open ground. They are planted for early crops on light, sandy soil at a distance of three feet apart, in hills in which a good shovelful of rotted manure has been mixed. On heavy soils which are not suited for an early crop they should be planted four feet apart. Water freely at the time of trans- plantiog, and shelter from the sun a few days until the plants are established. Tomatoes will always produce greater crops and be of better flavor when staked up, or when trained against walls or fences. All our Specialty Tomato seed is grown, selected and saved 'exclusively from the best specimens for seed, and is crti the highest quality. *9^r;?=& MAKKBT GAKDENERS and CANNERS will find our SE- l§N3S~'^L,ECTED TOMATO SEEI> KELIAULE in every respect The growing of high grade Tomato Seed is a leading and important specialty with us and we probably distribute more seed to CRITICAL, MARKET GARDEN and SELECT CANNING ESTABLISHMENTS than any other three seedsmen in the United States. Remember the main thing in malting a
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Tomatoes is to get your seed from us. BUY THE BEST. /iVI. & S. New Extra Early Gem Tomato. The Most Valuable, Extra Early Tomato Ever Introduced. One of the most profitable extra early sorts for the market gardener to grow. All who grow early Tomatoes should plant it. THE BEST EXTRA EARLY SMOOTH RED VARIETY EVER INTRODUCED The color of this highly valuable new sort is of a bright attractive red. FJesh firm ar.d of fine delicate flavor, good keeper, an excellent shipper, and so perfect and uniform in shape and size, that they look as though each one was cast in the same mold. Very heavy, very choice, very few seeds, very heavy long continued yielder. Nothing better. No other solid sort so early. Pkt loc., oz. 20c., oz 35c,, 2 oz. 60c. lb. ^i.oo, lb, S3.75, by mail. S. M. Mills, Crystal Springs, Miss.—Your Extra Early Gent is unsurpassed for beauty lality, size and earliness by anything we ever grew in ihe tomato line. I heartily recom- md it to all lovers of good early tomatoes." . & S. EARLY BEEFSTEAK. One of the grandest Tomatoes ever introduced, color rich, lossy scarlet, splendid cropper, round in shape, flebh very firm, fine flavor. A leading feature of this superb variety is that it ripens its fruit more uniform'y together than any known kind, whilst its pro- fusion of clusters averaging eight and ten large evenly formed clusters each, makes it conspicuously handsome. Fruit large, thick, heavy and remarkably free from cracking.- Invaluable as an exhi- bition variety for private growers and market purposes. Highly suitable for small gar- dens owing to its very compact growth. Excellent market variety. Pkt. ioc.,oz. 25c. 34 lb. 7SC., lb. $2.50. EXTRA EARLY PFERLESS. This tomato has fully sustained its claim for extra earliness, i nd we consider it one of the tarliest really good tomatoes in cultiva- tion. The tomatoes are of large size, feright red, very solid, and with 10 green core. The vines are most profusely loaded with fruit and continue to bear throughout the season, and when first fruiting ripening viore abundantly than any other sort, a great advantage to market gardeners. Enormously heavy cropper, ripening well to ttTfe" stem. Pkt. IOC., y, oz. 15c , oz. 25c., lb. 75c., lb. ^2.50.

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