A Tomato Race

One of the most novel display cards we have seen in some time is a large colored lithograph entitled Briggs & Brothers' 'Great Tomato Race.' It represents a lot of tomatoes striving in a race. The vegetables are mounted on horses and are supposed to be coming in on the home stretch. There is a grand stand filled with a vegetable audience; a big beet, with a turnip in his hands, is time-keeper, and the whole thing is full of life and fun.

The tomatoes come in in their order as estimated by this practical firm, who are of course well qualified to judge of the character of vegetables as well as flowers. They rate the various tomatoes in the order of their excellence as follows: Green Gage, Conqueror, Excelsior, Trophy, Defiance, Gen. Grant, Hubbard's Curled Leaf, Hepper's Goliah, Tilden, Dwarf Orangefield, Early Dwarf, Large Early Smooth Red, Reyes's Early Prolific, Simms' Cluster, and, far in the rear, his rider using a telescope to see where the others are, comes the distanced Large Yellow.

Briggs Bros. enjoy an enviable reputation upon the productive qualities of all seed sold by them, and especially upon tomatoes and onions.