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The Florists' Review 



May 4. 1916. 



I Vegetables and 



I FRUITS DEPARTMENT 



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TOMATOES IN TRUCK GARDENS. 



Preparing the Field for Planting. 



In the preparation of the soil the 

 best results can be obtained if the 

 grower will have the soil analyzed. It 

 will pay to have both a chemical and 

 mechanical analysis. This will not only 

 determine the amount of plant food 

 contained in the soil, but also, what is 

 more essential from the grower's point 

 of view, the amount of plant food avail- 

 able for the crop. When this has been 

 determined, the grower knows what 

 will be required to carry the crop 

 through. 



The analysis may show that he has 

 a soil with an excess of humus. He 

 will then naturally use a base manure 

 that contains a heavy percentage of 

 phosphate and wiU eliminate the am- 

 monia from it, thus neutralizing the 

 tendency to rank and excessive growth 

 in the early stages of the plant. The 

 phosphate will produce hard, short, 

 pointed plants. Well decayed stable 

 manure or cow manure is the best to 

 work into the soil, using the stable 

 manure where the soil is heavy, to open 

 and lighten it, and the cow manure 

 where the soil is light, to give it weight 

 and to supply moisture. It is impossi- 

 ble to dictate to the grower and say 

 his land requires ten, twenty or forty 

 tons of manure to the acre. That de- 

 pends on the tilth and fertility of the 

 soil, and always remember that we are 

 growing fruiting plants and not foliage 

 plants. 



Soil Cultivation. 



Bemember that the soil is a living 

 organism, and that it should be treated 

 in such a manner that air, light and 

 water will have free access to it. The 

 finer the tilth of the soil, the better it 

 can be cultivated. Deep cultivation, to 

 break up the subsoil, providing you do 

 not bring too much of the subsoil to 

 the surface at once, is a fine thing for 

 the soil. It breaks up capillary attrac- 

 tion and makes the soil drier and 

 warmer in the spring, and also makes 

 it more retentive of moisture in the 

 summer. 



After discovering the composition of 

 the soil, whether it is heavy, light, dry 

 or wet, whether it is subject to subirri- 

 gation, etc., you can start to manure 

 it in a practical manner. In the first 



Slace, the soil may be short of lime. 

 Tow, lime is the basis of all fertility. 

 It enables the plant to get the full bene- 

 fit of the food contained in the soil. 

 It is a first-class servant, but a bad 

 master. Never on any account over- 

 lime your soil and kill its fertility. 



The Use of Lime. 



Lime is absolutely necessary to the 

 good cultivation of the soil. To test 

 the soil for lime, place a small sample 

 of soil, made up from a mixture of 

 about twenty samples taken from va- 

 rious parts of the land, in a pint glass 

 and then pour on to it a 3-ounce glass 

 of muriatic acid. If this effervesces 

 and bubbles freely, the soil, as a rule, 

 contains sufficient lime. If, on the 

 other hand, it hardly bubbles at all, 

 lime is necessary. Apply a dressing of 



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