280 Agkicultukal Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. T. 

 TABLE XI — Few and Several Transplantings, to Feost. 



There was very little difference in the yields of the two lots, but 

 the three transplantings gave the earlier fruits, and in this resi)ect 

 the results agree with those obtained last year. In 1891, in a 

 comparison of one, two and three transplantings, all lots being 

 duplicated, the two transplantings gave decidedly the heaviest 

 yields. 



7. Flat-grown v. Pot-grown Plants. — It is a question whether 

 young tomato plants thrive better in " flats " — or shallow tray-lilce 

 boxes in common use among gardeners — or in pots. From each 

 of two sowings of Ignotum, made Febiniary twelfth and March 

 fourteenth, in flats, two dozen uniform plants were selected. 

 One dozeij, in each iustance, were transplanted into flats, and one 

 dozen into pots, on the same days. The transplantings were 

 made as follows: 



Series I (sown February twelfth), March fourth, Api-il fourth, 

 May fifth. 



Series n (sown March fourteenth), April fourth, May ninth. 



The flat-grown plants in each instance were set so far apart in 

 the flats that the plants could not interfere with each other, and 

 at the final transplanting they stood from three to four inches 

 apart each way. The pot-grown plants in the first series were 

 trauj^planted into thumb pots and then into three-inch and four- 

 inch pots. In the second series, they were placed in three-inch 

 and four-inch pots. The records are these: 



