88 TOMATO. 



should be planted three or four feet apart, and the running 

 kinds from six to nine, according to their nature, as some 

 will run more than others. It is always best to plant five or 

 six seeds in a hill, to guard against accidents ; as when the 

 plants are past danger, they can be thinned to two or three 

 in a hill. One ounce of Squash Seed will plant from fifty 

 to one hundred hills, according to the sorts and size of the 

 seed. 



The fruit of the Early Summer Squashes is generally 

 gathered for use before the skin gets hard, and while it is so 

 tender as to give way to a moderate pressure of the thumb 

 nail. The Winter Squasbes should be suffered to ripen, and 

 collected together in October, in the manner recommended 

 in the calendar for that month. 



All kinds of Squashes should, after having been boiled 

 tender be pressed as close as possible between two wooden 

 trenchers, or by means of a slice or skimmer, made of the 

 same materials, until dry, and then prepared for the table 

 in the same manner as Turnips. 



TOMATO. 



TOMATE, ou POMME D'AMOUR. Solarium lycopcrsicuni. 



VARIETIES. 

 Large Squash-shaped. j Cherry-shaped. 



THE Tomato, or Love Apple^ is much cultivated for its 

 fruit, in soups and sauces, to which it imparts an agreeable 

 acid flavour ; it is also stewed and dressed in various ways, 

 and is considered very wholesome. 



The seed should be sown early in March, in a slight hot- 

 bed, and the plants set out in the open ground, if settled 

 warm weather, in the early part of May. Tn private gar- 

 dens it will be necessary to plant them near a fence, or to 

 provide trellises for tbem to be trained to, in the manner 

 recommended for Nasturtiums ; they will, bowever, do 

 very well, if planted out four feet distant from each other 

 every way. 



