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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
Choice head lettuce grown in England____-_-_--------- 
Cauliflower. Almost every plant produced a head------ 
A typical head of greenhouse-grown cauliflower-------- 
Vigorous cauliflower plants are essential to success---- 
Cauliflower trimmed for market. Head on extreme 
right trimmed very short-__.__________------------- 
Tomatoes in a Kennett Square (Pa.) house------------ 
Bonny Best: tomato.i----o5-o0..22502 oe dee cssnees==* 
Comet tomato Baga) Fire ale Macnee eee a a 
Globe. tomato: 2.22 es a eg ees 
Peerless tomato = 228 
A good crop of greenhouse tomatoes 
Eclipse X Earliana tomatoes at the New Hampshire 
Experiment Station 
A house of plants growing in pots—England___-_------ 
Blossom end rot of tomato 
A convenient picking basket. 
Each paper box holds six pounds of tomatoes, and eight 
boxes may be packed in a standard bushel box, such 
as is used in the Boston district._____-____--_-----__- 
Tomatoes are sometimes wrapped and packed in the 
manner shown in this illustration--_-__------_------- 
A unique way of packing a number of small boxes of 
tomatoes 
The Boston bushel box, showing the upper tier of six- 
pound packages S 
English cucumbers in an English house____--_-------__ 
Good specimens of White Spine cucumber__----------- 
The long cucumber at the left is English Telegraph. 
The short one at the right is a strain of White Spine. 
The middle specimen is Abundance—a cross between 
the other two varieties__.____-_____----_.---_-______e 
Arlington White Spine cucumber__..-----_------------ 
Rawson Hothouse cucumber_-...----___--__-_________ 
White Spine cucumber. The left specimen is of much 
better form at stem end_______---..__--____-_--_-_-____ 
Davis Perfect from the originator___._____-_----------- 
Abundance from the originator__.____---------------_- 
Cucumber seed production house__------------------__ 
Special White Spine cucumbers grown for seed_-__-___ 
A cucumber nursery in the Boston district--------_____ 
Cucumbers showing upright training------------_-_____ 
Cucumbers and narrow strips for their support-________ 
Single stem cucumber training. Note how the plant has 
been twined about the string <- peer 
Cucumbers trained on A-form trellis----____-_________ 
