TOMATOES— OUR EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS. 
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is a fine sort to grow for Fruit Stand sales, because of its attractive and very distinct appear- 
ance. Ripening in about no days. (See illustration below.) 
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Cross Skction of Thrke-Celled Cross Tomato. 
Two-Celled Cross 115 Days.— In novelty only approached by the Three-celled Cross 
which is not so curious as this very distinct Tomato, is as large as a big goose egg and solid as 
an apple, free from cracks, green core or blemishes. Color like Acme. Foliage very small and 
silvery, but a strong vine. An admirable sort for forcing under glass or for early sales as Fruit 
Stands, its noveltj' of shape, size, coloring, speaking its own praise. Ripening in about 115 days. 
(See illustration below.) 
Cross Section of Two-Celled Cross Toilato. 
Our Mxperimental Grounds, 
The Bloomsdale and Reedland Testing Grounds comprise various plots of over nine acres 
of laud. One acre is devoted to Vegetables grown from small seeds, as Radish, Lettuce, Beet, 
Carrot, Onion ; all sown in rows across the breadth of parallel beds eight feet wide with 
three feet alleys between. On ttese beds are many hundreds of tests. 
Another acre is devoted to trials of Peas and Beans all drilled in parallel rows, twenty 
feet of each variety and all in the order of maturity as near as it can be arrived at. These 
Peas and Beans are thinned to three inches apart to permit perfect development, that the 
character may be indicated. Half an acre is devoted to Sugar Corn planted in hills four by 
four feet and in parallel rows, These tests also arranged in order of maturity ; the first 
