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ture, but it is more important that the plants be gone 

 over often and the branches removed when small. If 

 allowed to do so, branches would spring from the axil 

 of each leaf and the plant would become a perfect 

 thicket of slender branches and leaves and produce 

 but little fruit. The main stem is sometimes pinched 

 out after three or four clusters of fruit are set and 

 the branch from the axil of the first leaf above is 

 allowed to take its place. This tends to hasten the 

 maturing of the fruit clusters already set. After sev- 

 eral clusters have matured, or the main stem reaches 

 the top of the house, some growers allow a shoot from 

 the bottom to grow and as soon as fruit sets on it the 

 first stem is cut away and this takes its place. Others 

 prefer to remove the old plant entirely and set in 

 young ones. A plant ready for transplanting is shown 

 in Fig. 25. In figures 26, 27 and 28 are shown interior 

 views of greenhouses at the New York station at Ge- 

 neva, the Ohio station at Wooster, and the New 

 Hampshire station at Durham. Note the strong, vig- 

 orous plants in Fig. 26; the method of utilizing tile 

 for watering in Fig. 27; and the ground-floor bed- 

 ding in Fig. 28. 



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