AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



113 



As will be see by the last two columns in the table, the number 

 of decayed fruits was very greatly increased late in the season, 

 amounting in some cases to 75 per cent, of the fruit gathered. 



Conclusion : While not so marked as in previous trials, indica- 

 tions still point to the value of early setting of tomato plants. 



2. Value of Pot-Culture: The importance of careful hand- 

 ling of tomato plants has been emphasized in previous reports, 

 and a limited amount of work has been done in this direction at 

 this station. 



During the past season a test of the relative value of pot-culture 

 during the early stages of growth was conducted on lines similar 

 to those detailed on page 102 for cabbage plants. A dozen plants 

 of each of four varieties were transferred from the seed-flats to 

 thumb-pots on April 27th, to three-inch pots May 9th. to four-inch 

 pots May 20th, and to the open ground June 1st A duplicate lot 

 was handled in flats at the same time. The results are shown in 

 table VIII. 



TABLE VIII. 



VALUE OF POT CULTURE OF TOMATOES. 



Variety. 



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-1 



IGNOTUM. 



Pots .. 



Boxes . 

 Ithaca. 



Pots . . . 



Boxes . 

 Optimus. 



Pots ... 



Boxes . 

 Stone. 



Pots . . . 



Boxes . 



19.0 

 12.3 



23.5 

 15.5 



32.0 

 16.5 



14.3 

 9.1 



S.9 

 5.9 



6.7 



4.7 



7. '.i 

 4.3 



5.5 

 5.1 



7.5 



lO.-i 



1.88 



7.7 



8.2 



l.OO 



4.0 



15.8 



1.48 



4.0 



11.1 



l.OO 



3.9 



14. a 



i. a j 



4.2 



11. 7 



l.OO 



6.2 



7.4 



l.:i9 



8.2 



.v:{ 



l.OO 



ISO. 4 

 ll©.3 



127.8 



08.7 



112.1 



s:t.o 



7/.0 



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