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The Florists' Review 



June 12. 1913. 



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foliage. The same precautions should be 

 taken in fumigation also. 



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TOMATOES FOR WINTER CROP. 



i We have five houses, 32x150, in which 

 we intend to plant tomatoes this com- 

 ing winter, to produce fruit from No- 

 vember to March. December and Jan- 

 uary are the two months in which we 

 should like to get the best crops. We 

 intend to put one foot of soil all over 

 the floor of the houses and plant on 

 the level. What distance apart, in 

 the rows and between, should they be 

 planted! What is the best mode of 

 training? What is the right time to 

 sow and what are the right sorts to sow 

 to get the best results? We used Comet 

 last winter on a small, experimental 

 scale, with fair results. They were sown 

 July 6, 1912. I am a successful grower 

 of general greenhouse stock and have 

 obtained reliable information from The 

 Review and profited by it for the last 

 fifteen years. P. R. 



In order to have a good crop of to- 

 matoes which will commence to ripen 

 early in November,, the seed should be 

 sown early in July. I have found a 

 date as near July 4 as possible about 

 right. The winter minimum tempera- 

 ture should be 60 degrees; 1 or 2 de- 

 grees higher will not harm them, and by 

 March 1 it can be advanced to 65 de- 

 grees with advantage. Tomatoes must 

 always have ^ dry atmosphere, exactly 

 the opposite of that for cucumlsers. 



While crops planted out in solid beds 

 do satisfactorily after March 1, I have 

 never seen good results attained in mid- 

 winter unless the roots were somewhat 

 restricted. When they are grown in 

 large quantities the general practice is 

 to plant them about eighteen inches 

 apart each way, leaving a 24-inch walk 

 at intervals to grow to single stems, the 

 plants being supported by strings at- 

 tached to overhead wires or stout cords. 



Now, it will not pay you to grow to- 

 matoes in this way in midwinter. The 

 plants would have far too much root- 

 run and a large part of the flowers 

 would fall off instead of setting. The 

 soil would not dry out as it should and 

 mildew would probably be hard to keep 

 in check, no matter how careful you 

 might be in watering and ventilating. 

 If you want a really good crop you 

 should train the plants up the roof at 

 the sides and erect some suitable trel- 

 lising for the other rows. If you run 

 them erect, be sure to leave three or 

 four feet between the rows. Set the 

 plants eighteen inches apart and train 

 to one stem. 15 you prefer to run the 

 main stem and two side laterals, allow 

 the plants thirty inches. I would, how- 

 ever, prefer single stems. 

 ■ You say you have a foot of soil, 

 which is entirely too much for midwin- 

 ter tomatoes. I would advise you to 

 leave each row of plants a border not 



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over twenty inches wide, boarding this 

 space in. If they fill this narrow border 

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 essary top-dressing and liquid food, as 

 needed, and you will find that your set 

 will be vastly better than where the 

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As to varieties. Comet is a splendid 

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