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heavier soils (Bonny Best Early resembles it) ; 

 Matchless is a splendid main-crop sort ; Ponderosa is 

 the biggest and best quality — ^but it likes to split. 

 There is one more sort, which I have tried one year 

 only, so do not accept my opinion as conclusive. It 

 is the result of a cross between Ponderosa and 

 Dwarf Champion — one of the strongest-growing 

 sorts. It is called Dwarf Giant. The fruits are tre- 

 mendous in size and in quality unsurpassed by any. 

 The vine is very healthy, strong and stocky. I be- 

 lieve this new tomato will become the standard main 

 crop for the home garden. By all means try it. And 

 that is a good deal to say for a novelty in its sec- 

 ond year! 



Turnip: — The earliest turnip of good quality is 

 the White Milan. There are several others of the 

 white-fleshed sorts, but I have never found them 

 equal in quality for table to the yellow sorts. Of 

 these. Golden Ball (or Orange Jelly) is the best 

 quality. Petrowski is a different and distinct sort, of 

 very early maturity and of especially fine quality. 

 If you have room for but one sort in your home 

 garden, plant this for early, and a month later for 

 main crop. 



Do not fail to try some of this year's novelties. 

 Half the fun of gardening is in the experimenting. 

 But when you are testing out the new things in 

 comparison with the old, just take a few plants of 



