CHAPTER XIV. 
TOMATOES. 
Pursuing the idea advanced in the preface, that the 
best way to tell how to do things is to tell how things are 
being done by successful people, we quote Warren R. 
Shelmire, of Avondale, Chester county, Pa., on under-glass 
tomato culture, whose cultural methods are given to us 
for the purpose. 
THE LORILLARD TOMATO. 
Mr. Shelmire sows seed in July for the winter crop, and 
in November for the spring crop. He considers Lorillard 
best for winter and Mayflower best for spring. 
After the young plants are well started in the seed bed 
they are pricked out or transplanted ; and then, after some 
further growth, potted in three-inch pots. This insures 
strong root development. They reach the bed of the forcing 
house say two months after the time of sowing the seed, at 
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