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Fig. 89.--Peerless tomato. 
the literature relating to tomato forcing. In addition to 
the foregoing list, perhaps the following are the most 
common: June Pink, Combination, Fordhook First, 
Winter Beauty, Industry, Success, Mayflower, Hummer, 
Alpha Pink, Burpee’s Earliest Pink, Eclipse, Holmes’s 
Supreme, Dwarf Champion and Hubert Marvel. 
Soil—A great many different soil types are used in 
growing tomatoes under glass. With the data available 
it cannot be said that larger or better crops can be grown 
in one soil, referring only to texture, than in another. 
Unusually heavy greenhouse crops are grown in the very 
coarse sandy soils of Irondequoit. Many. other sections 
are producing heavy yields in fine sandy soils, and some 
of the largest vields have been obtained on extremely 
heavy clay or silt soils. The general advantages of the 
lighter soils have been recognized in Chapters III, V 
and VI, and if such soils are available for the forcing of 
tomatoes, they should be chosen in preference to heavy 
soils, other factors being equal. It is unmistakably true 
