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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa.
NEW ATLANTIC PRIZE TOMATO.
[image (one New Atlantic Prize tomato)]
The very earliest of all tomatoes. It is the result of many years careful selection by one of the most successful tomato growers of New Jersey, who has for a few years past shipped to New York and Philadelphia markets, fine, large tomatoes, fully two weeks ahead of all competitors, being the first Northern fruit that has reached those markets, and selling at from three to four dollars per basket. The vines grow strong, stiff, and very rapidly, setting the crown fruit when quite young, the buds appearing before the plant is four inches high. The fruit is borne in immense clusters of ten to twelve. Each vine producing from sixty to eighty large perfect fruits, very solid and of the finest quality, being unusually free from core and seeds. When first fruiting it ripens more evenly and abundantly than any other Tomato known. Our Des Moines market gardeners say that this is the only variety they have ever grown which produced a good crop from the first set of blooms on plants, thereby netting them high prices. Per pkt., 10c; oz., 35c; ¼ lb. $1
NEW PEACH TOMATO.
[image (two tomatoes on one stem)]
This peculiar variety, introduced by a Philadelphia firm, is a decided curiosity. The tomatoes in color are a deep rose and golden amber, blended in an undescribable [indescribable] manner, all covered with delicate bloom. like the bloom or furze of a fine peach making it almost impossible to recognize the detached fruits as tomatoes. For eating out of the hand as fruit it is without a riva![rival], the very so!id[solid], rich meaty flesh, being unequalled in delicacy of flavor, and melting in the mouth like a grape. It is very productive, the fruit being borne in clusters of from four to eight[.] It is most excellent for preserves and for canning. Well worthy of a place in every garden. Per pkt., 10 cts.; ½ oz., 20 cts.; oz.; oz., 35 cts.
IGNOTUM TOMATO
The Ignotum (unknown) Tomato was discovered by Professor L. H. Bailey at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1887 as a sport of the Eiformige Dauer, and by him reported to be the best of 170 sorts tested. Prof. Taft says: From our own experience and the reports of others who have tried it, I am inclined to think that it deserves a front rank among the Tomatoes. With us, as compared with the Mikado, it is larger, smoother, more solid, less subject to rot, more productive, and is more desirable, both as an early and as a late variety. We had several hundred plants growing on a dry, sandy knoll, and although it was a dry year with us, the plants bore a very heavy crop, and continued ripening until the frost destroyed the plants about the first of October. It is well worth a trial. Per pkt., 10 cts.; ½ oz., 25 cts.; oz., 40 cts.
New Dwarf Champion Tomato.
[image (New Dwarf Champion tomato)]
It’s habit of growth is peculiar, for not only is it dwarf and compact, but the stem being thick, stiff and short jointed, it is actually self-supporting when laden with fruit. The foliage is also distinct and peculiar, being very dark green in color, thick and corrugated. Its close, upright growth also enables it to be planted much nearer together than any of the older sorts, and the yield therefore, is likely to be much greater, for in productiveness it is unsurpassed. At their best stage we had plants that had on half a bushel of grown fruit, green and ripe. It is also very early[.] The fruit resembles the Acme, and is of a purplish pink color, and always smooth and symmetrical in form. The skin is tough and the flesh solid and of fine quality. Altogether, the Dwarf Champion Tomato is a decided acquisition, whether wanted for market or for private use. Can almost be called a Tree Tomato. Per pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; ½ lb., 85 cts.

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