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four feet high (higher, if desired), or supported on 

 high wire or wooden trellises, or on low A-shaped 

 frames or racks, or on piles of brush placed beneath 

 the vines in fact, anything will answer that will keep 

 them off the ground. (Where large areas of toma- 

 toes are grown the vines are seldom supported.) 

 Pinching off the tips of the main upper shoots when 

 the plants on racks are about three feet high is prac- 



SAME BACK YARD AFTER GROWING FLOWERS, 

 VINES AND A HIGH SCREEN OF TOMATOES 



tised by a few gardeners, who claim that it "makes 

 the fruit earlier and finer" ; some others train the 

 vines to long stakes and regularly pinch off the side 

 shoots ; many others do no pruning of any kind. 



Varieties of tomatoes : Earliana, Atlantic Prize, 

 Chalk's Early Jewel, Matchless, etc., are well-known 

 early red kinds, the first-named being especially early, 

 I find. Stone, Acme, Perfection, Jersey Red, Match- 

 less, Beauty, etc., are good main-crop varieties. To- 

 mato varieties soon "run out" and new kinds are 

 constantly being introduced; so names change 



