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it over again. The sauce, when poured out for use, 

 should have the thickness of rich cream. 



The diiferent uses of this fruit for culinary and 

 other purposes are rapidly on the increase. Its 

 cultivation is extensive, particularly by one eminent 

 gardener, Willmott, of Isleworth, near London. By 

 training the plants against a bank, he had gathered 

 in one season, from 600 plants, 400 half sieves 

 (three will make a bushel) of ripe fruit for market. 



There is but one variety (the old original red) 

 worth cultivating ; the yellow is not much noticed ; 

 and the cherry and pear-shaped, of French extrac- 

 tion, are of little worth. 



Culture. The Tomato is raised from seed, which 

 should be sown about the end of March, either on 

 a slight hot-bed, or in a large pot or pan, according 

 to the quantity likely to be wanted, a score of plants 

 producing many scores of fruit. When the plants 

 are up and two or three inches high, they are to be 

 transplanted into small pots (two in each), and after- 

 wards plunged in the bed whence they were taken, 

 or on any other slight heat, and kept rather close 

 until well roofed, when air should be admitted, and 

 so increased as to harden the plants for their being 

 finally planted out at the end of May or beginning 

 of June, either against a south wall or pales, or 

 against a warm sloping bank of earth. 



The plants can be readily turned out of the pots, 

 when a little water will be all they require for the 

 present. As soon as they have formed leaders or 

 half a foot or so in length, if against a wall, they 

 should be regularly trained up, and any superfluous 

 branch cut out : these, however, will be but few. 



