Tomatoes. 45 



TOMATOES. 



To the market gardner this is the most important truck 

 crop grown in the South, and in all probabilities the most 

 profitable when judiciously grown and packed and mar- 

 keted. The writer has more knowledge of, and expe- 

 rience with, this particular crop perhaps than any oth«r. 

 Twenty years ago this crop was grown to a very small ex- 

 tent in the South and scarcely at all for shipment. Now 

 thousands of carloads are annually grown in the South 

 for Northern use. The shipping season in extreme 

 southern Florida begins in December and continues stead- 

 ily all through winter. As the spring advances Southern 

 ^ipments cease and the shipping time advances north- 

 ward, until about July the fifth, when Jersey stock sup- 

 plies the big Eastern markets. 



Varieties. 



As shipping varieties only are to be considered in this 

 work, I will name the following to be recommended for 

 general truck growing: Paragon, Livingston's, Stone, 

 Eedfield Beauty, Globe. The Globe is a new variety that 

 is giving excellent results, and is proving a favorite every- 

 where. For land that is effected with blight, Duke of 

 York is the only variety to be recommended, in fact so 

 far it is the only variety that has proven resistant to 

 blight. For an extra early tomato where pruning is 



