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Show PLENTY OF FINE TOMATOES Best results Obtained by Use of Hard-Wood Hard-Wood Ashes as Fertilizer Keep Off Black Flies. According to a writer in the Garden Gar-den Magazine plenty of fine tomatoes can be had without any thouble if hardwood ashes are used as a fertilizer, fer-tilizer, and are also sifted on the leaves to keep off the little black flies. Do not set the plants in the open ground until all danger of frost is past. Dig large holes a foot deep, place a pint of ashes in each hole, and cover them with at least two inches of dirt, on which set the plants. The best time to do this is at twilight or on a cloudy day. Protect each newly set plant with a paper bag (the bottom having been cut out of sufficient size to sli around the plant easily. Three or four stakes driven into the ground hold these in place. |