Tomato Notes fob 1892. 



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duawn tliajt they could scarcely stand alone. This year the effort 

 was repea/ted, but the drawn or leggy plants, while tall and slen- 

 der, were still able to support themselves, and they were vigorous. 

 The lots for this year's test came from Ignotum seeds sown Feb- 

 ruary twelfth. All the plants were transplanted at the same 

 times, March fourth, April fourth, May second, and were set in 

 field June first. Lot No 1 was transplanted into pots at the first 

 ^iftin^. At the date of setting in the field they were in four-inch 

 pots, and were short, stocky plants of ordiniary dimensions. Lot 2 

 was also grown in pots of the same sizes, but the plants stood 

 amongst a general coUeiGtion of other plants, and because of lack 

 of room and light, ran up eighteen or twenty inches high. Lot 3 

 was grown entirely in flats, being giving more room at each shift- 

 ing, but the plants were allowed to grow eighteen or twenty inches 

 taU from crowding. Lot 1 was set in the field ia the ordinary 

 manner. Lots 2 and 3 were trimmed of their lower leaves, the 

 root was set ait the ordinary depth — three to four inches — and 

 half the length of the slender stem was laid down and covered ia 

 a trench of the same depth, the free portion lying nearly pairaUel 

 with the surface of the ground. The following figures diow how 

 all these lots behaved: 



TABLE XVII — " Leggy," or Dbawn Plants. 



These figures show plainly enough that the layered leggy pot- 

 grown plants gave decidedly best results, and that even the flat- 

 grown leggy plants gave slightly heavier yield to fix>st than noimal 

 plants, although they came into bearing later. If these figures 

 are to be relied upon, there is some advantage in growing tall and 

 Slender plants and then laying them down in setting; but the test 



