160 TOMATO: 
AN fi Training. — The plants 
eZ J > must be trained. For 
p \é Is ‘ Hy . . . . 
» Bi ‘6 midwinter, when it is 
necessary to economize 
sunlight, I much prefer to 
train plants to a_ single 
stem. Strong flax cord, 
the size of wool twine, is 
used for sip pene eae. 
single strand runs _per- 
pendicularly from each 
plant to a horizontal wire 
or rafter extending length- 
wise the house under the 
roof. The (plant as se. 
cured loosely to this sup- 
port at intervals of a foot 
or so by means of some 
broad and soft, cera) 4s 
bass or rafha. Fig. 49 
(page 155) shows the 
young plants being 
trained, and Fig. 52 shows 
a mature vine supported 
by the “cond Al aiae 
shoots are pinched off as 
soon as they appear, and 
the leader is ‘‘stopped”’’ 
or pinched off as soon as 
it reaches the glass, or 
sometimes when fruits be- 
gin to form. In _ houses 
of sufficient height, I like 
to train the plants fully 6 
feet high. In midwinter 
ak it may be necessary to 
52. A single-stem tomato plant. cut away some of the 
