One man got lost in a mustard field, and he was on horseback too.
I saw at San Diego a tomato vine only eight months old, which was nineteen feet high and twenty-five feet wide, and loaded full of fruit in January.

A man picking the tomatoes on a stepladder added to the effect.

And a Gold of Ophir rose-bush at Pasadena which had 200,000 blossoms.

This is vouched for by its owner, a retired missionary, who cannot be doubted.

There are truly true pumpkins that weigh 256 pounds and are seven feet in circumference; cucumbers seven feet long; seven beets weighed 500 pounds; three bites to a strawberry; and the eucalyptus shoots often grow twenty feet the first year, carrying with them in their rapid ascension the stakes to which they were tied.