i6 MARKET NURSERY WORK 



Quality tells. Buyers, especially professional buyers for the trade, 

 are vastly discriminating. They will look neither at the puffed- 

 out bags of insipidity nor the small sweet fruit. What they 

 are after and are prepared to buy is a sample of fruit beyond 

 question, firm enough to travel well and handle safely, of good 

 medium size, averaging 2 oz. each, with a clear, firm and 

 attractive skin. 



Too much water is one form of overfeeding. The tomato 

 does not like its feet in water it is rather a dry subject 

 in so far as it abhors superfluous moisture. Its umbrageous 

 foliage uses up and evaporates a lot of moisture, but it thrives 

 best when its roots are healthily warm and dry after drinking. 

 That is one reason why we have again and again insisted upon 

 a perfect drainage. 



DISEASE AND ITS PREVENTION 



With the intense cultivation given to the tomato and the 

 unnatural conditions under which this is necessarily carried 

 on, it is small wonder that it is subjected to the attack of various 

 diseases, nor that as its cultivation intensifies and increases 

 new diseases appear. We could find much to say anent these 

 diseases and their cure, but we hold that we may render more 

 valuable and effective service in directing our principal remarks 

 towards " how best to prevent them." We believe, and our 

 belief is backed up by our experience, that it is quite possible 

 even in these days of congestion to ward off many attacks and 

 prevent malignant diseases from obtaining foothold in our 

 houses ; that by taking proper precautions, conditions may be 

 established that are inimical to the spread of diseases, more 

 especially those of a fungoid character. 



We recommend a simple, hygienic regime to which every detail 

 of cultivation should be attuned. We allude to cleanliness, 

 air, careful watering, equable temperature, and the use of 

 preventives. Conditions that are. best described as wholesome 

 and healthful should obtain from the roots of the plants to the 

 very ridge board of the house. When the night temperature 

 rises in the spring there should be a small vent open somewhere 

 in the house all night, and when full summer conditions are 



