ON FARM GARDENING. 
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The Great B. B. (Brinton's Best) Tomato, Best for Main Crop. 
will make a sudden leap toward maturity, and will yield 
ripe fruit in July. The out-of-doors cropping season lasts 
for three full months. The tomato is now grown under glass 
almost everywhere, and is to be had irt the market during all 
the months of the year. 
The out-of-doors season is profitably prolonged by pick- 
ing all the mature or nearly mature fruit when the first frost 
comes, in October, and placing these unripe tomatoes on 
straw in a cold frame. Covered with straw and with the sash 
to keep out frost, the fruit ripens in a satisfactory manner 
