Show dwarf tomatoes tomatoes are one of it if not the most popular summer cummer vegetables vegetable this ihla worldwide world wide favorite to Is of comparatively ively recent use as an edible it was ivas originally cultivated tor for its decorative features only the fruit being sailed Love apples and people considering si 31 thorn them to be poisonous this singular error was probably due dua to tie he tact that tomatoes tomato ea belong to the nightshade family several ot of whose embers are deadly poison to human t teinus I 1 tho popularity ot of tomatoes la Is due hegely to tho the great variety of ways in which they can be prepared for tho the table no other vegetable can be eaten raw or cooked in 1 such a variety of no other vegetable has wider range of 0 f growth is easier to grow r produces more from the land tomatoes were originally divided nto into the tree and bush classes after I 1 their heir mariner manner ol of growth about 50 60 rears ago a french market gardener noticed a sturdy low growing tomato bush in a field of ordinary vines we vay lay bush advisedly be decaux caux itlay it lad a short strong stalk and bac right up bolding its branches and fruit oft off the pound from his bis original plant sport has bu been developed a great variety ot of iward tomatoes this pecullar peculiar occur ce ca has neve re occurred and it if this humble gardener had bad t tire pro served hla his remarkable plant tho world would be without a race ol of commercial tomatoes that bids all calr to put the larger sorts out of buti buel I 1 ness so far as the largo grower la Is concerned we have long been familiar with tomatoes which aro are dwart as to the size of the fruit and they need not be considered seriously the new dwarf has full sized fruit of the very heat beat quality and while each plant bears lower fewer tomatoes the dwarf will produce a great many more mora tomatoes from a given area than will the larger bushes because it 16 spreads less and may be planted closer together where the large varieties will go about 2700 to the acre planted four feet apart and will yield about bushels of good fruit the giant dwart dwarf may be planted 2 by 32 3 feet apart nearly plants to the acre and has frequently yield ed GOO bushels even it if this were to be overlooked entirely the fact that the dwarf tomato plant does not hays have to be tied or staked up makes it much better bottei for or both the small garden and tho market garden the fruit Is natu naturally natural ll kept off tho the ground and ripens with 0 out ut rotting in the attempt handle them just as you have handled bandied the th large varieties and plant them closer together and forget about the stakes the giant dwarf la Is the most corn com mon dwarf variety in this country and we advise you try a few plants this year or next thorough Thor bugh cultivation Is necessary us as with any other tomato and you must break up the surface after every rain another excellent forcing plan is to sink a bob romless tin can in the ground by each plant and pour liquid fertilizer or even plain water into it twice weekly |