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Good varieties are Early Jewel, Dwarf Champion, New Stone, 

 New Coreless, New Globe, and Golden Qneen. After frost has 

 killed the vines the larger green tomatoes may be picked, each 

 wrapped in a piece of newspaper, packed in a shallow box and left 

 to ripen by storing in a closet or other suitable place where there 

 is no danger of freezing. By doing this, farmers may have ripe 

 tomatoes up to Thanksgiving time. 



Turnips and rutabagas. — Turnips seeded in April are usable late 

 in June or early in July, but soon become woody and bitter. Ruta- 

 bagas are ready for use by the middle of July. For winter use ruta- 

 bagas should be seeded in June and turnips in early July. If seeded 

 earlier than this they become woody in the late fall. When the 

 greater part of the growth takes place in the cool weather of autumn 

 the quality is better and the size larger. 



Wonderberry and garden Imckleberry . — The fruit of the wonderberry 

 is fairly agreeable when eaten raw, but is used chiefly in the making 

 of pies and jams. The vines are usually heavily loaded, but the 

 fruit is so small that it is somewhat difficult to gather. The plant 

 is an annual, but reseeds itself, so that volunteer plants come up in 

 the garden each year. 



The garden huckleberry is advertised by some seedsmen as being 

 the same as the wonderberry, but the two plants are very different. 

 The garden huckleberry is an upright-growing, bushy plant, while 

 the wonderberry is decumbent. The fruit of the garden huckleberry 

 is two or three times as large as that of the wonderberry and when 

 raw is disagreeable to the taste. It must be cooked to be palatable. 

 After cooking there is practically no difference in flavor between the 

 two fruits. These two fruits do not deserve to be extensively grown, 

 but under conditions on the Truckee-Carson Project they are suffi- 

 ciently valuable to deserve a place in the family garden, at least 

 until the more' desirable small fruits have come into bearing. 

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