XVIII LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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80. Choice head lettuce grown in England 232 



81. Cauliflower. Almost every plant produced a head 235 



82. A typical head of greenhouse-grown cauliflower 236 



83. Vigorous cauliflower plants are essential to success 240 



84. Cauliflower trimmed for market. Head on extreme 



right trimmed very short 244 



85. Tomatoes in a Kennett Square (Pa.) house 263 



86. Bonny Best tomato 268 



87. Comet tomato 269 



88. Globe tomato 270 



89. Peerless tomato 271 



90. A good crop of greenhouse tomatoes 273 



91. Eclipse X Earliana tomatoes at the New Hampshire 



Experiment Station 277 



92. A house of plants growing in pots England 281 



93. Blossom end rot of tomato 293 



94. A convenient picking basket 295 



95. Each paper box holds six pounds of tomatoes, and eight 



boxes may be packed in a standard bushel box, such 



as is used in the Boston district 296 



96. Tomatoes are sometimes wrapped and packed in the 



manner shown in this illustration 297 



97. A unique way of packing a number of small boxes of 



tomatoes 298 



98. The Boston bushel box, showing the upper tier of six- 



pound packages 299 



99. English cucumbers in an English house 301 



100. Good specimens of White Spine cucumber 303 



101. The long cucumber at the left is English Telegraph. 



The short one at the right is a strain of White Spine. 

 The middle specimen is Abundance a cross between 



the other two varieties 304 



102. Arlington White Spine cucumber 305 



103. Rawson Hothouse cucumber 306 



104. White Spine cucumber. The left specimen is of much 



better form at stem end 307 



105. Davis Perfect from the originator 308 



306. Abundance from the originator 309 



107. Cucumber seed production house 310 



108. Special White Spine cucumbers grown for seed 311 



109. A cucumber nursery in the Boston district 312 



110. Cucumbers showing upright training 313 



111. Cucumbers and narrow strips for their support 315 



112. Single stem cucumber training. Note how the plant has 



been twined about the string 316 



113. Cucumbers trained on A-form trellis 319 



114. Abundance cucumber and arbor form of training 323 



