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out fifteen small Spot Cash tomato plants in open 

 ground direct from seed boxes sown April lo. Other 

 plants were transplanted to larger boxes, according to 

 usual custom, where they remained until May 30, when 

 they were set in open ground. These plants were at 

 this time larger and better looking than those set in 

 garden May 9, but while they were recovering from 

 the shock of the second transplanting the first quite 

 caught up with them and in the end were the better 

 plants. Would also note experiment with an early 

 tomato sowed in open ground May 23, not transplanted 

 at all, nor very well cared for, but it bore abundantly 

 and ripened fruit in October. I have concluded that 



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MR. EDGE'S TOMATO SUPPORT 



except for very earliest use, it is best to transplant toma- 

 toes but once, direct from seed box to open ground, 

 and for late crop the seed box may be dispensed with, 

 sowing in hills in open ground any time in May, and 

 thinning to one plant as with cabbages, etc. 



A Cheap Tomato Frame is described by Alfred P. 

 Edge, Harford county, Maryland. Each frame con- 

 sists of four pieces of three by four scantling fastened 

 together at the top with a wooden pin so that they will 

 open and close. On each side are nailed three strips of 

 shingle lath about fifteen feet long. The frames stand 

 about four feet high when open, and by stooping one 

 can walk the whole way underneath. The frames are 



