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plants we!Pe ®o badly drawn that they were unable to stand alone. 

 IMs year the leggy plants were about twenty inches high, bat 

 while slender they were still stiff and vigorous when put in the 

 field. It is safe to conclude that if one has leggy plante he should 

 layer them when planting. (Page 286.) 



12. Shearing young plants. — Plants which were sheared to 

 make them stocky, im the place of one transplanting, were later 

 than othefps which were transplanted at the date of this shearing. 

 The yields were slightly in favor of the sheared plants, but this 

 may have been an incidental variation. (Page 288.) 



13. Hilling tomiatoes. — Hilling tomato plants, durimg two 

 year, has given no favorable results. (Page 288.) 



14. Trimming tomato plants. — Trimming the plants after they 

 have made a good growth in the field gave no advantage this year, 

 and it is doubtful if it is advisable. (Page 289.) 



15. Single-stem training. — This year, as last, single-stem 

 training in the field gave decidedly heavier yields to the square 

 foot of land, and the crop was earlier. (Page 290.) 



16. Fruit-rot. — Rot was not serious this year, and it did not 

 appear to be influenced by methods of cultivation or varieties. 

 (Page 291.) 



17. Southern or field blight. — A new tomato disease ax>peared 

 in our plantation this year. It is probably a bacterial trouble 

 which may become serious. No remedy is known, but rotation 

 of crop will probably check it. It is characterized by a yellowing, 

 curling and drying of the leaves, which finally become black and 

 dead. (Page 293.) 



18. Varieties. — Few varieties were tested in 1892, and while 

 they possess merit, none of them appear to be destined to supplant 

 varieties already in existence. (Page 294.) 



L. H. BAILEY, 



L. G. CORBETT. 



