8o Cheap Trellis for Tomatoes^ Etc. 



subject to be injured by frost, and the fruit, which is in use from Decem- 

 ber to March, keeps and carries well. 



Like all other widely-cultivated fruits, its numerous synonymes attest 

 the estimation in which it is held. Besides the synonyme of New York 

 Pippin, given above, it is known as Virginia Pippin, Kentucky Red 

 Streak, Carolina Red, Funkerhouser, Hutchinson Pippin, Baltimore 

 Red, Joe Allen, Victoria Red, Victoria Pippin, Red Pippin, Kentucky 

 Pippin, and Baltimore Pippin. 



CHEAP TRELLIS FOR TOMATOES, Etc. 



I PLANT posts (common fence posts will do) about thirty to fifty feet 

 apart, in the rows of tomatoes, or other plants to be trained ; then 

 stretch lightly, from post to post, two No. i6 wires (galvanized is best), 

 one about eighteen inches and the other thirty-six inches above the 

 ground. At intervals between these posts I drive down two or tiiree 

 small stakes, and tie the wires to them, to prevent their sagging or 

 moving sidewise too much. For tomatoes I thoroughly enrich the 

 soil, and set the plants about four feet apart. As they grow, I train 

 them in fan shape by loosely tying the branches, first to the lower wire, 

 and in due time to the upper wire. All side shoots not needed to cover 

 the space allotted to each plant are pruned away, and the others, after 

 growing three or four inches above the top wire, are pinched in, and 

 kept at this height. Thus each vine covers about twelve square feet of 

 space. They are fully exposed to sun, light, and air ; thev ripen well 

 and early ; the fruit does not rot nor get soiled, and is very easily gath- 

 ered ; and vines thus trained produce abundantly. 



This mode of training has been very successful with me. I use the 

 same kind of trellis for blackbeny and raspberry vines or bushes, pla- 

 cing wires at heights to suit, and find them the cheapest and best of any- 

 thing thus far tried. A pound of No. 16 wire contains one hundred 

 and two feet in length, and costs fifteen to twenty cents. This makes 

 a cheaper trellis than wood, and is far better in many respects, and is 

 easily kept in repair, or may be removed and put up again without 

 much labor. T. B. R, 



Newcastle, Ind. 



