GARDENING FoR ALL. 83 
YEGETABLE MARROW.—(Cucurbita esculenta). 
This is a very popular vegetable, easy of culture, and as 
much at home in the back garden of the peasant as in,the 
extensive kitchen garden of the nobleman. 
If trained up substanital trellis-work, it is most 
ornamental and striking, and is only then seen in its most 
beautiful and interesting aspect, especially when bearing some 
of its handsome as well as useful fruit. 
Its good culture is so similar to that described for ridge 
cucumbers, that the modus operandi need not be repeated. In 
addition, the plant will succeed on heaps of garden refuse 
over which a few inches of soil has been thrown, on exhausted 
hot-beds, or in warm positions on richly manured ground. 
Gourds and pumpkins prosper under the same conditions, 
and are most ornamental objects either in growing or when 
the fruits are grouped together on shelves. tables, and in 
recesses in winter. 
Good crops of vegetable marrows bring to the grower 
£20 to £30 per acre, but it must be remembered that it is 
mainly the early fruits which make such an average possible, 
mid-season and late vegetables are often un-remunerative. 
TOMATO.— (Lycopersicum esculentum). 
Tomatoes are the fruits of a South American plant, which 
plant is closely allied to our common potato, and is attacked 
by similar diseases—species of fungi, one kind attacking the 
root and stem, and producing the “ sleepy disease,” a second, 
the leaves, and a third, the fruit. The first is called Fusarium 
lycopersict, and the first indication that a plant is diseased is 
shown by the drooping of the leaves, which increases day by 
day. Asa rule the plants are attacked when quite young, 
but the outward evidence of the disease does not manifest 
itself until the plant is full grown, or even not before the fruit 
isset. Plants manifesting the above symptoms should be at 
once carefully removed—roots and all—and burnt, and the 
soil be promptly dressed with quicklinie, mixing the two 
thoroughly. 
