| Show how to raise eaise tomatoes A gentleman who has watched the culture of the tomato both in europe and in america amer I 1 cap gives the following directions for raising early and perfect tomatoes germinate in a hothouse hot hoube boube hotbed hot bot bed or kitchen tor for very early fruit transplant when small email into pots the tomato improves by every transplanting and each time should be bet net deeper from the time four or six leaves appear pinch or cut off the larger leaves and the terminal buds and continue this process of pruning till the fruit is far advanced so that when ripe the bed will seem to be covered by one mass of lar large e smooth even iced sized tomatoes of the richest pomegranate color and the leaves bidden by the fruit set plants three or four feet a part in the warmest spot you have and let them fall over to the hor northern thern frames twelve or fifteen inches high or on pea brush anything to sustain them and keep the fruit from touching the ground which delays clays il ripening creates mold invites cut worms and and always gives the tomatoes toun tono toes an earthy taste try one cluster the first that blossoms blo bio sams and cut everything else gradually away this will give you tomatoes in perfection in the latitude of buffalo four or six weeks eari lier than they are asua usua jy y ripened in our clime if you wish wi late tomatoes pull up each plant by the root just before the frost comes and han ban hang them up tip on on the south side of the balding bul ding top down with a blanket to roll up days and let fall nights when ice makes hang thim them up i in n any room that does not freeze I 1 or in a aldr dry Y i cellar and you will have fresh tomatoes all I 1 winter somewhat shriveled but of fine flavor I 1 of the new variety the berf perfected feted toma 1 to he says I 1 succeeded in getting r one variety which I 1 found superior to any I 1 had ever seen in the following qualities 1 delicacy of flavor thinness ot of skin fewness of seeds solidity of meat ineat earliness of rii rig ripening ripening ening richness of color co lor fl evenness of size an and ease of culture th the e next year I 1 cast all other varieties away and it has been universally pronounced by agricultural fairs farmers clubs and scientific horticulturists to be superior to any other |
