TRUCK-FARMING AT THE SOUTH. 



will throw out a stem at the axil of each seed leaf ; 

 thus producing, as it were, two plants from each root, 

 which, when planted out deeply, will support each other 

 and tend to increase the yield. If this operation is per- 

 formed, before the plants have taken root, only one bud 

 is likely to become developed. It may still pay those 



Fig. 64. BOX FOB TOMATO PLANTS. 



further south, who can ship the earliest tomatoes of the 

 season and secure the highest prices, to prick out into 

 three or four inch flower-pots or into boxes holding several 

 plants each, these boxes being plunged in the cold frames. 



BOXES FOR TOMATO PLANTS. 



In former years, before shipments from Florida antici- 

 pated my crops, I used for my entire crop, boxes like 



