. Manual of everything for the garden : 1894. neral cultiva-tion, and the advent of thissplendid variety verifies thisprediction. The CrimsonCushion, as will be noticed bythe cut, is not so long as thePonderosa, but is much thickerthrough from stem to blossomend, in fact, so marked is thischaracteristic, that it is fre-quently almost round. Thecolor is brilliant scarlet crimson,untinged with purple, andripens up almost completely tothe stem. The CrimsonCushion, like the Ponderosa, is almost seedless, requiring from 10 to 12 bushels of ripe fruit to produce one pound of seed,pound of seed is re
. Manual of everything for the garden : 1894. neral cultiva-tion, and the advent of thissplendid variety verifies thisprediction. The CrimsonCushion, as will be noticed bythe cut, is not so long as thePonderosa, but is much thickerthrough from stem to blossomend, in fact, so marked is thischaracteristic, that it is fre-quently almost round. Thecolor is brilliant scarlet crimson,untinged with purple, andripens up almost completely tothe stem. The CrimsonCushion, like the Ponderosa, is almost seedless, requiring from 10 to 12 bushels of ripe fruit to produce one pound of seed,pound of seed is realized from 3 bushels of ordinary Tomatoes. These figures tell better than any description the seedlessof this grand variety. The flesh is firm and meaty, and of superb quality. It is enormously prolific and wonderfully earlya Tomato. With us last season it ripened at the same time as the Perfection. (See cut.) 25 cts. per pkt., 5 pkts. for NEW TOMATO, CBIMSON CUSHION. whereas a characterfor so large •fc Hendersons Delieata Squash.^. The ground color of this beautiful variety is orange yellow, splashed and striped with verydark green. The quality is splendid, being rich and dry, similar in this respect to the -well-known Fordhook Squash. The Delieata is the earliest of any vine Squash that we have evertested, and is so prolific that last season, from twelve hills of two plants each, 353 perfectSquashes were gathered. Although of small size, this variety is wonderfully solid ana heavy,the seed cavities being very small. For private use, particularly, we can recommend thisSquash, as it far surpasses in richness of flavor any of the large, old-fashioned sorts. In ourtrial grounds last season, we probably had 100 varieties and stocks of Squashes under test, butof all this number not one produced as many Squashes as the Delieata. As before stated, the great distinctive feature of this Squashis its extreme earliness; it maturesabout the same time as the SummerSquashes, and f
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