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Keport of the Horticultukist of the 



Table VIII. — Pl.^xts ix Pots. Yield for Six Weeks after First FRnx 



Ripened. 



♦Fifty-one square feet is the bench area actually occupied by each lot of plants. 

 Compare witii Table VI. 



tThe decrease in yield at this period is considered in the discussion which follows 

 Table VI. See page 259. 



PLANTS KEPT IN SMALL POTS AND PLUNGED IN THE 

 SOIL ON THE BENCH VS. PLANTS TRANSPLANTED TO 

 THE BENCH. 



In the first pages of this bulletin, while setting forth some of 

 the considerations which led to an investigation of the merits of 

 single-stem training as compared with three-stem training, the 

 necessity of avoiding too rampant a growth in forcing tomatoes 

 was considered and some of the various ways of holding the 

 plants in check were mentioned. In forcing cucumbers, some 

 gardeners plant the seed in small pots, like two-inch pots, and do 

 not move the plants from these pots. When they are ready to be 

 put in permanent place on the bench for fruiting the pot contain- 

 ing the plant is plunged in the soil on the bench. The soil is 

 mounded over the pot so that new roots are sent out from the 

 stem above the pot. It has been stated on previous pages that 

 in tests conducted during the winters of 189o-6 and 1896-7 some 

 of the potted tomato plants were plunged into the bench soil in 

 pots after the method used in forcing cucumbers, and other plants 

 were knocked out of the pots and transplanted directly to the 

 bench soil. These two methods will now be compared. The rec- 

 ords of these plants have been given in another connection on 

 previous pages, and the methods of sowing seed, selecting plants, 

 preparing soil, training,- etc., may be found by consulting those 

 pages. 



