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The results ot the author's experience in forcing tomatoes are 

 summed up as follows: 



(1) The tomato can be forced for winter bearing to advantage, but it demands 

 close and constant attention. 



(2) A tomato house shoukl be very light and warm, and the roof should be at least 

 5 feet above the beds or benches. 



(3) An abundance of sunlight is essential. 



(4) The tenii»erature shoukl be about GO^ to G5^ at night and 70^ to 80^ during the 

 day, or higher in full sunshine. 



(5) House tomatoes demand a rich soil and a liberal supi)ly of fertilizers. 



(6) In this latitude house tomatoes bear when 4 to .'"> months old. 



(7) Tomatoes like brisk bottom heat. They may be grown in large boxes or upon 

 benches; Irf-inch-square boxes, placed about a foot apart and containing four plants 

 to the box, aflord one of the neatest and best means of growing tomatoes. 



(8) Winter tomatoes must be trained. From one to three stems, depending upon 

 the distance apart of the plants, are allowed to grow from each plant. These are 

 trained upon perpendicular or ascending cords. The plants must be ]truned as fast 

 aa new shoots appear. The heaviest clusters should be supported. 



(9) Water may be used more freely early in the growth of the plant than later- 

 Wet the soil tliorouglily at each watering rather than water often. When the fruit 

 begins to set, keep the atmosphere dry, especially during ihe middle of the day. 



(10) In midwint^ir the llowors should be pollinated by h.ind. This may be done by 

 knocking the pollen from the (lowers when the atmosphere is dry and catching it 

 in a spoon or other receptacle, into which the stigma is tlirust. 



(11) One-sidedness and much of the smalluess of house tomatoes appears to be due, 

 at least in part, to iusulhcient pollination. 



(<j) One-sidedness appears to result from a greater develoj)ment of seeds upon the 

 large side. 



(b) This development of seeds is apparently due to the api)lication of the pollen to 

 that side. 



(c) An abundance of pollen api»lied over the entire stigmatic surface, by increas- 

 ing the number of seeds, increases the size of the fruit. 



(rf) The pollen probably stimulates the growtli of the fruit, either directly or indi- 

 rectlj', beyond the mere inlluence of the number of seeds. 



(I'i) The second crop of fruit is obtained by training out a shoot or shoots from the 

 bas(^ of old plants, by burying the old plant, or by starting a new seedling crop. The 

 first method appears to be the best. 



(115) House tomatoes in this latitude yield about 'J pounds to the scjuare foot. The 

 amount of the first crop does not appear to influence the amount of yield in the second 

 crop from the same plant. 



(14) Lorillard, Ignotum, Volunteer, Ithaca, Golden Queen, and Beauty wo have 

 found to bo good winter tomatoes. 



(I.")) Insect pests are kept in check by fumigating with tobacco, and the spotted 

 luite by Hughes' lir-tree oil. Fungi are controlled by ammoniacal carbonate of cop- 

 l)er and IJordeaux mixture. 



North Carolina Station, Annual Meteorological Report, 1890 (pp. 77). 



Annual I^eport of the meteokological division of toe sta- 

 tion Foil ISOO, II. B. Battle, Ph. 1)., and C. F. Von Herrmann.— 

 This division of the station constitutes the North Carolina weather 

 service. The report includes general statements regarding the work 

 done in 1890; an annual summary of observations, comprising seven 



