CHAPTER XIX 
Oruer Vines TuaT Are UseEFuL 
Growing “quality” tomatoes in the garden— Forcing tomatoes under 
glass — Cucumbers in the open and under glass — Melons and how to 
grow them — Melons under glass — The watermelon — Pumpkins and 
squashes, 
BesipE the grape, a number of vines are of 
no small importance because of their edible 
products. This chapter will deal severally with 
some of these, and their cultivation both in the 
garden and under glass. 
Perhaps the most important of all this group 
is the tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) of 
which the fruits are sold in all the principal 
markets of the world, both winter and summer. 
Tomatoes are very easily grown out of doors, 
the one important point being to see that the 
plant receives no check or set back from the sowing 
of the seed to the ripening of the fruit. 
The seeds of the tomato should not be sown 
before the middle of March. Start them in a 
greenhouse with a night temperature of 55° to 
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