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plant. Now open your arms and hands, and with a 

 gentle side sweep press the vines as separated down 

 hat on all sides of the hill. Now press down on the 

 lop of the vines as they lay down. Don't be afraid, 

 press them down so they will stay down. If this is 

 done at midday }ou will not break off one vine in a 

 hundred, \lnes when broken down will show green 

 tomatoes three-fourths size of the first setting. 



We do not make hotbeds. We have a set of boxes 

 twenty-four by eighteen inches, and one and one-half 

 inches deep, that we take to the greenhouse with our 

 seed. They are grown in these boxes and when they 

 are four inches high we take them home and transplant 

 into cold frames. This saves us a lot of expense and 

 labor, and we always have fine plants ready in time tu 

 set in the open ground. 



We have successfully grown tomatoes for years, 

 early and late, and are satisfied that in the frames is 

 where the early tomatoes are made. In our opinion 

 not one gardener in a hundred gives the plants enough 

 room in the frames. Our plants when set out often 

 have small tomatoes set and are large and stocky, 

 healthy plants, that when properly set out never wilt 

 down, but commence at once to grow. 



A Cucumber Expcriiucnt. — We had been thinking 

 for some time about growing White Spine cucumbers 

 for slicing, under glass outdoors. This proved to be 

 one of the most profitable and interesting experiments 

 w^e have made in our experience of twenty years as 

 market gardeners. 



We had on hand four sash eight by three and one- 

 half feet with no glass in. We purchased cotton cloth 

 and covered these frames. We also used five sash 

 with glass in three by three and one-half feet. We 

 plowed, harrowed and cultivated the plot to be used 

 and raked it level with a garden rake. We took one- 



