302 — How to Make the Garden Pay. 



Enemies, Marketing, etc. — The potato stalk-borer some- 

 times attacks the tomato vines, and the green tomato-worm the 

 foliage. Both enemies, when appearing, should be hunted up 

 and destroyed. Tomato rot and blight appears very destructive 

 in some localities, and the proper precautions, of which " wide " 

 rotation is safest, must be taken. The far- 

 mer and market gardener can hardly afford 

 to stake or train his thousands of plants; 

 neither is this of any special benefit. It is 

 different in the home garden, where a few 

 plants, nicely trained, can easily be Miade an 

 interesting and attractive feature of the 

 vegetable patch. A simple way of training 

 the plants is by single stake. Set the stake 

 Strawben^ Tomato. ^^ ^^"^e of setting the plant, and keep the 

 latter tied up from the very beginning. 

 In packing for distant market, be sure to send only nice, smooth 

 specimens, and sort out all the rough and otherwise faulty ones. 



varieties. 



Our list now includes a large amount of most excellent sorts, 

 and if I were restricted to a single one, I would hardly know 

 which to choose. Leaving a few early dwarfish sorts out of con- 

 sideration, there is but little difference between all our really good 

 varieties so far as earliness and productiveness are concerned. 

 They vary greatly in color, size, shape, as well as habit of 

 growth, and character of foliage. Scores of new varieties have 

 been introduced during the past few years. 



Dwarf Champion, — Fruit of purplish color, fair size, solid, 

 smooth and uniform. Vine of remarkably stiff and compact 

 growth ; foliage heavy, of dark bluish-green. Can be planted as 

 close as 3 feet each way, and if staked when first set out, will be 

 apt to remain in an upright position right through. 



Early Ruby. — This for a number of years has been our 

 principal early market variety. It has its faults. It is not al- 

 ways regular in shape ; its size might be a little larger ; and the 

 plant is lacking in thrift, size and vigor. High cultivation reme- 

 dies these faults to some extent. We have grown it because it 

 has been by far the best of its season, far better than Early King, 

 Earliest Advance, Atlantic Price, etc., and it has given us ripe 

 fruit weeks in advance of the ordinary standard sorts. Other, 

 smoother sorts, I hope will soon take its place. 



Maule's Earliest. — This comes highly recommended as a 

 first early and very productive sort. 



Matchless. — This newer tomato is certainly matchless in 

 form, regularity of growth, and desirable shipping qualities. 



