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Picking and packing, 166 — Saving cucumber seed, 167 — 

 Varieties, 169 — Squash, 169 — Choosing the soil for 

 squashes, 170 — Fertilizers, 170 — Fertilizers for 

 squashes, 171 — Planting squashes, 172 — Cultivating, 

 173 — Marketing, 173 — Varieties, 174 — Chayote, 174 



— Bulletins, 176. 



CHAPTER XIV 



Vegetables with Edible Feuits — Solanaceods Plants 177-208 

 Tomato, 177— Tomato seed, 179 — Seed-beds, 180 — 

 Soil for tomatoes, 181 — Fertilizer, 182 — Preparing the 

 tomato field, 182 — Setting out tomato plants, 184 — 

 Cultivating, 185 — Pruning tomato vines, 186 — Staking 

 tomatoes, 187 — TreHising, 188 — Picking tomatoes, 188 

 — Packing-house, 189 — Sorting tomatoes,190 — Summer 

 and fall crop, 191 — Saving tomato seed, 191 — Canning, 

 195 — Enemies of the tomato in Florida, 193 — Varie- 

 ties of tomatoes, 194 — Literature, 196 — Eggplant, 196 



— Hotbeds and ooldframes for eggplants, 196 — Using 

 flower-pots, 197 — Soil and preparation, 199 — Fertilizer 

 for eggplants, 199 — Cultivation of eggplants, 200 — 

 Gathering eggplants, 201 — Marketing, 201 — Seed sav- 

 ing, 201 — Varieties of eggplants, 203 — Pepper, 204 — 

 Hotbeds and coldframes for peppers, 205 — Soil aud 

 preparation for peppers, 206 — Fertilizer for peppers, 207 



— Cultivation of peppers, 207 — Marketing, 207 — Sav- 

 ing seed, 208 — Varieties of peppers, 208. 



CHAPTER XV 



Vegetables with Edible Fkuits — Other Crops . . 209-221 

 Roselle, 209 — Propagation, 210 — Cultivation of 

 roselle, 211 — Gathering, 212 — Shipping roselle, 212 — 

 Productivity, 213 — Uses of roselle, 213 — Diseases, 214 



