QUESTIONS 259 



8. Describe the most practicable method of supporting tomato vines, 



9. What are the advantages of staking tomatoes as compared with allowing 



them to spread over the ground? 



10. What precautions must be taken when picking ripe tomatoes? 



11. Discuss the adaptation of varieties of tomatoes to particular purposes. 



12. What is the most common disease attacking the foliage of the tomato? 



How may it be controlled? 



13. Describe the appearance of a tomato plant affected with the ''wilt." 



14. W^hat indirect methods of avoiding trouble from "wilt" of tomatoes may 



be employed? 



15. What are the essential requirements in the growing of eggplants? 



16. When are the seeds of eggplants sown, and when are the plants set in the 



field? 



17. Describe the method of growing eggplants up to the time of placing in 



the field. 



18. Describe the transplanting of eggplants. 



19. What insects attack eggplants? How may they be controlled? 



20. Describe the growing of pepper plants, and the growing of the crop after 



the plants are set in the field. 



21. What are the two general types of peppers? What are the chief uses of 



each? 



22. What soil and climatic conditions are best adapted to the culture of sweet 



potatoes? 



23. How are sweet potatoes propagated? 



24. Why are sweet potatoes usually planted on ridges? 



25. Describe the process of planting sweet potato "slips." 



26. What special tools are used in the tillage of sweet potatoes? 



27. Describe the harvesting of sweet potatoes. 



28. What are the three general types of sweet potatoes? What are the leading 



characteristics of each? 



