New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 2G9 



From the complete records of the test the following table is 

 derived : 



Table XVI. Three-stem Plants. Time of Ripenixg First Fruits, Aver- 

 age Number of Fruits Per Plant, Weight Per Fruit ajcd Yield Per 

 Square Foot of Bench. 



METHOD OF BENCHING. 



Ill pots 



Not in pots 



« o 

 p. 



fl ? rt 



rs s a 



16.04 

 19.53 



*This is the average for eight plants as the first flower cluster on one plant was cut 

 off by an insect, thus delaying the setting of the first fruit. 



In this case the plants in pots ripened their first fruits a little 

 earlier but yielded less weight of fruit than the plants not in 

 pots, the diii'erence being at the rate of twenty' and a half pounds 

 per hundred square feet of bench. 



CONCLUSIONS. 



These tests of single-stem vs. three-stem training and of plants 

 plunged on the bench in small pots vs. transplanted plants not in 

 pots have been continued two seasons. Not counting the plants 

 which have been discarded during the course of the experiments, 

 «ixty-six three-stem plants and one hundred and nineteen single- 

 stem plants have been under test making a total of one hundred 

 .and eighty-five plants. 



Only one variety has been used in the experiments but that is 

 one almost universally used by gardeners in this country for 

 winter forcing, namely, the Lorillard. The tests have been 

 conducted on a sufflciently extensive scale so that the results 

 are conclusive so far as this variety is concerned. Probably with 

 other varieties they would be somewhat modified in detail, but 

 the general results would doubtless be the same whatever the 

 kind of tomato used. 



