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Show THE TOMATO MUST HAVE MUCH CARE Large or Small, Early or Late Varieties Require Almost Daily Attention. Almost any garden would be Incomplete Incom-plete without tomatoes. There are yarl-eties yarl-eties sufficient to satisfy almost any taste as to season and size. There are varieties that have been known to weigh as much as fir pounds to the single tomato. Others of the plum type are as small as the small plums. Colors are of several tints, Including deep and light red, flesh and yellow. The majority of small, smooth tomatoes toma-toes belong to the family that affords the earliest fruit. The Ponderosa and the famous, though not so well known, Beefsteak nr larger, wrinkller and later. The Beefsteak takes Its name from the round steak because It is solid in the center, and the few seeds in the fruit are to be found at the outer edges in small seed cells. A difficulty frequently encountered In growing tomatoes is that during certain cer-tain sensons of the year the blossoms fall off rather than set fruit. From observations ob-servations this Is due to unfavorable weather conditions. While we cannot overcome the difficulty diffi-culty entirely, at the same time It can be remedied to a limited extent by means of the following factors: First, setting out of stocky cold-frame cold-frame plants, preferably of early varieties. varie-ties. Second, proper selection of place. Third, select a fertile soli or manure the soil. Fourth, set the plants deeply and properly spaced. The advantnge of a stocky cold-frame cold-frame plant of nn early variety Is that It will set on a large amount of fruit before the unfavorable weather conditions condi-tions set in. Two factors to be considered in the selection of a place to set the plants are: In the first place, under no conditions condi-tions should plants be set In a soil where tomato wilt or leaf spot occurred oc-curred the last few seasons. If plants are set in such soil they wdll be diseased dis-eased similarly. Second, where possible, set the plants where they will be protected from the southwest wdnds. Such protection pro-tection mny be afforded by means of buildings, trees, hills or plantings of tall plants, planted thickly In a row, such as corn. Do not set the plr-nts too close up to the protection so that the shade will affect the growing of them too much. Set tomato plants deeper than they originally stood. In case of large plants they may be set three or four Inches deeper than they originally stood and a second set of roots will be produced and, on account of the original roots, which would be set deep In the soil, the plants will be better able to withstand with-stand dry weather. Staking or trellislng and pruning are factors worthy of consideration In growing tomatoes, and where you expect ex-pect to stake and prune the plnnts, If the plants are set In rows four and one-half feet apart, about two feet to thirty Inches apart in the ro cultivation cultiva-tion can be kept up throughout the entire season. |