INDEX 



149 



Exposure 38 



for early crop 39 



for greenhouse .... 40 



for home garden .... 40 



Fertilizers 43 



Amounts 43 



Character 44 



Experiments with .... 45 



for general application . . 44 



for greenhouse .... 45 



for home garden .... 45 



Flats, construction . . . . 57 



Gathering fruit 91 



Habit 22 



Handling fruit 92 



History 14 



Hotbeds, construction . . .51 

 Hotbeds, growing fruit in . .70 

 House, construction .... 49 



Insects injurious to tomatoes . 123 



Blister beetle 125 



Colorado potato beetle . .125 



Cut worm 123 



Flea-beetle 124 



Stalk-borer ...... 127 



Tomato fruit worm . . .128 



Tomato worm 126 



White fly 130 



Location of field as determining 



profit 38 



Manure 



Fall dressing 41 



for cold-frames . . .55 



for greenhouse soil ... 37 



for hotbeds 51 



in preparing ground ... 46 



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Pollenation 25 



Prices obtained 



at canneries 118 



for hothouse fruit . . . .122 



for select field grown fruit . 122 



Profits on crop 122 



Propagation of plants ... 48 



from cuttings 49 



from seed 48, 49 



in cold-frames 53 



in hotbeds 51 



in temporary greenhouses . 49 



Pruning 80 



Origin 



Origin of name 



Packing 

 Pollenating 



Ripening on the vines 

 Ripening after frost 



Sash, cost ....... 49 



for hotbeds 52 



for cold-frames .... 53 



Seed breeding 112 



Essentials to success . . .113 

 Growing and saving commer- 

 cial seed 115 



Methods followed . . .115 

 Prices received . . .116 

 Yields obtained . . .116 

 Importance of breeding from 



individual plants . . .114 

 Importance of exact ideals . 113 

 Methods recommended . .113 

 Principles underlying . .112 



Setting plants 70 



Conditions favorable and un- 

 favorable . . . . 70, 71 



in field 70 



in greenhouse 74 



in home garden .... 74 

 New Jersey method . . .71 



Other methods 73 



Soil 



Composition, importance of . 24 

 Conditions essential . . .41 



Preparation 41, 46 



for greenhouse .... 47 

 for home garden . . .47 



