TOMATO 



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grown on a great scale, and excellent strains have been 

 developed, entirely superseding the smaller angular 

 fruits of earlier days. As a tender plant, the Tomato 



Fig. 130. Seedlings of Tomato. Two-thirds natural size. 



cannot be very successfully grown in the North unless 

 it is started under glass, eight to ten weeks before it 

 can be set in the field. To develop stocky plants, two 

 or three transplantings are usual; and as the Tomato 

 transplants poorly, pots are better for use than flats, 

 although seedsmen offer the plants in boxes of a dozen 

 or more, late in the spring. 

 As in the case of celery, the 

 plants are best grown at 

 home, with great care to 

 make sure that they suffer no 

 check, and also to prevent 

 them from growing too tall 

 for their strength. Under the 



best conditions, Tomatoes Fig. ISl. Old and new types of 

 i j j n Tomato. Note the differences 



may be advanced as far as to in size and shape 



