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Fig. 89. Peerless tomato. 



the literature relating to tomato forcing. In addition to 

 the foregoing list, perhaps the following are the most 

 common : June Pink, Combination, Fordhook First, 

 Winter Beauty, Industry, Success, Mayflower, Hummer, 

 Alpha Pink, Burpee's Earliest Pink, Eclipse, Holmes's 

 Supreme, Dwarf Champion and Hubert Marvel. 



Soil. A great many different soil types are used in 

 growing tomatoes under glass. With the data available 

 it cannot be said that larger or better crops can be grown 

 in one soil, referring only to texture, than in another. 

 Unusually heavy greenhouse crops are grown in the very 

 coarse sandy soils of Irondequoit. Many other sections 

 are producing heavy yields in fine sandy soils, and some 

 of the largest yields have been obtained on extremely 

 heavy clay or silt soils. The general advantages of the 

 lighter soils have been recognized in Chapters III, V 

 and VI, and if such soils are available for the forcing of 

 tomatoes, they should be chosen in preference to heavy 

 soils, other factors being equal. It is unmistakably true 



