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small wire staple. This should all be done before the 
plants are set out. 
“ During the last week in May and first week in June, 
the plants should be set out. Water well in the frame, 
then gently pull the plants and place as many upright 
in a basket as it will hold. Drop about twenty at 18 
in. apart; then one person with a small, thin graft, or 
a garden trowel, should insert it about 4 in. into the 
ground at an angle, and press upwards, slightly rais- 
ing the soil without disturbing it. A second person 
should insert the damp roots of the plant in the nick 
and tuck them carefully to the bottom, into the damp 
soil; remove the tool gently and press the soil firmly on 
to the plant with the heel. Do not water. Ihave 
tried many ways of planting tomatoes in the fields, and 
this I found to be the best method where large numbers 
have to be planted. Where only a small quantity are 
being handled it is best to grow them in strawberry 
baskets or pots, and put the plants out with the roots 
undisturbed. 
“Tn a week or two, if the weather is genial, growth 
will be observed, and then a dressing of nitrate of soda 
may be given, about 2 hundredweight to the acre. 
It should be crushed fine and mixed with three times 
its bulk of dry earth or ashes. At the end of June the 
plants should be thoroughly sprayed with strawsonite. 
After spraying, it will be time to go over the plants, 
and remove all the side shoots, keeping the plants to one 
stem only. When the plants have grown long enough to 
reach 6 in. above the wire, they should be again trimmed 
