. The Bloomsdale Trial Grounds cover from eight to ten acres, and are divided into three or four separate sections, all of which may be compared as to outside workshops, where are examined as to their quality nine to ten thousand growing samples of Garden Vegetables and Ornamental Flowers. The work in the Trial Grounds is entirely an observation of relative merits, and has nothing to do whatever with germinative tests, which to the extent of 18 to 20 thousand samples are made under glass. The farms are, however, a Trial Ground on a very large scale, for it is on them where Seeds are grown and
. The Bloomsdale Trial Grounds cover from eight to ten acres, and are divided into three or four separate sections, all of which may be compared as to outside workshops, where are examined as to their quality nine to ten thousand growing samples of Garden Vegetables and Ornamental Flowers. The work in the Trial Grounds is entirely an observation of relative merits, and has nothing to do whatever with germinative tests, which to the extent of 18 to 20 thousand samples are made under glass. The farms are, however, a Trial Ground on a very large scale, for it is on them where Seeds are grown and plants selected, which Seeds are given out to contracting farmers to grow "Pedigree ; (12)
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