GARDENING For ALL. 85 
three-quarters of an inch of soil, water the seed nicely, and 
place in frame, green-house, or hot-house, according to 
circumstances. Thin sowing produces sturdy plants, thick 
sowing produces weak and spindling ones. 
When large enough to handle, transfer the seedlings into 
small pots—-one plant in each—filled with light and rich soil. 
As they advance in size and vigour give them another shift 
into four-inch or six-inch pots, using a similar soil to the. 
above, and grow on in such a position as will afford warmth, 
light and air, and keep them near the glass. 
Harden them off gradually in preparation for planting 
out of doors, and they may be planted out finally at the. 
beginning of June, the second week in June being usually 
safer from frosts than the first week. Obtain the plants in 
flower at the time of planting if possible, and if a bunch of 
fruit is already set, so much the better. Trim off all 
superfluous side-shoots, and, if grown in the open ground, 
take off the top of each plant when five or six bunches of 
fruit are set. Those grown against walls may be allowed to 
grow a little higher, because they will possibly ripen a few 
more fruits. 
Do not cut or mutilate any of the principal leaves if 
room can be found for them; this applies to plants growing 
under all circumstances, either out-of-doors or under glass. 
The details of culture under glass are similar to those 
already described, especially if grown in pots, with this. 
addition, that when the pots are filled with roots and the 
plants are carrying a crop of fruit, it will be almost impossible 
to over-water (if the drainage is right) or overfeed them. 
I prefer to plant tomatoes in borders under glass ; to plant 
them two feet from each other all ways; to train each plant 
vertically towards the glass, and to confine each plant to one 
stem. 
Where space is plentiful and the supply of plants limited, 
then more than one main stem may be taken from each 
plant; in fact, as many as are required to fill the space at. 
command. Half-a-hundredweight of tomatoes have been 
gathered from one plant grown in this way. These main 
stems should be trained about eighteen inches apart. 
