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ground and pack the earth around it. Fill it about half full 

 of fresh horse manure well tramped clown and pour a bucket- 

 ful of hot water on this manure. Then put on eight inches of 

 good soil and then a mixture of well-rotted manure and rich 

 black loam in about equal quantities, until you reach within 

 about twelve inches of the top of the barrel: then heap up 

 manure around the outside. Set three plants in this and trim 

 to two shoots each. Train one of these shoots from each 

 plant to stakes or ,near-by building, but allow the other three 

 shoots to grow naturally over the sides of the barrel. Be 

 careful to give plenty of water daily — a gallon each day will 



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Fig. 114.— Varieties of tomatoes. 1.— Dwarf Champion. 2— New Imperial. 

 3.— Thorburn. 4.— Virginia Corker. 5.— Landreth's 110 days. 6.— 

 Landreth's 95 days. 7.— Landreth's 100 days. 8.— Landreth's 105 

 davs. 9.— Landreth's 115 days. 10.— Waldorf. 11.— Landreth's 105 

 days 12.— Fordhook First. 13.— Early Wilcox. 14.— Clover Crest 

 Giant. 



be none to much. Three or four old barrels treated in this 

 way and placed in sunny exposures will produce all the toma- 

 toes needed by a family of four or five persons. 



Prolonging the Tomato Season. In autumn the tomato season 

 may be prolonged by pulling the plants with the unripened 

 fruit on them and hanging them in a shed, w T here they will 

 continue to ripen fruit for some time. The larger tomatoes 

 will ripen very well if picked off and kept in a shady place. 



Saving Tomato Seed. Tomato seed should be saved from 



