The Canadian Horticulturist. 47 



RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN TOMATO CULTURE. 



PREQUENT transplanting of the young plant, and good tillage, are. 

 necessary to best results in tomato culture. 



2. Plants started under glass about ten weeks before transplanting 

 into field gave fruits from a week to ten days earlier than those started two 

 or three weeks later, while there was a much greater difference when the 

 plants were started six weeks later. Productiveness was greatly increased 

 by the early planting. 



3. Liberal and even heavy manuring, during the present season, gave 

 great increase in yield over no fertilizing, although the common notion is 

 quite to the contrary. Heavy manuring does not appear, therefore, to 

 produce vine at the expense of fruit. 



4. The tests indicate that poor soil may tend to render fruits more 

 angular. 



5. Varieties of tomatoes run out, and ten years may perhaps be con- 

 sidered the average life of a variety. 



6. The particular points at present in demand in tomatoes are these : 

 regularity in shape, solidity, large size, productiveness of plant. 



7. The ideal tomato would probably conform closely to the following 

 scale of points : Vigor of plant, 5 ; earliness, 10 ; color of fruit, 5 ; solidity 

 of fruit, 20 ; shape of fruit, 20 ; size, 10 ; flavor, 5 ; cooking qualities, 5 ; 

 productiveness, 20. 



8. Solidity of fruit cannot be accurately measured either by weight or 

 keeping qualities. 



g. Cooking qualities appear to be largely individual rather than varietal 

 characteristics. 



10. The following varieties appear, from the season's work, to be among 

 the best market tomatoes : Ignotum, Beauty, Mikado, Perfection, Favorite, 

 Potato Leaf. 



11. The following recent introductions appear to possess merits for 

 market : Bay State, Atlantic, Brandywine, Jubilee, Matchless, and perhaps 

 Lorillard, Prelude and Salzer. 



12. The following recent introductions are particularly valuable for 

 amateur cultivation : Dwarf Champion, Lorillard, Peach, Prelude. 



— L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. 



