The Home Garden 



years. This is very rich in quality, tender, sweet, 

 and thick meated. It is fine for pie making. 

 Give the culture advised for melons. 



TOMATO 



This vegetable cannot be omitted from any 

 garden without leaving one open to the charge 

 of not living up to his privilege. Perhaps no 

 other is so generally useful. It can be prepared 

 in so many w^ays that the housewife who has 

 a generous supply of it will feel herself equal 

 to almost any emergency along culinary lines. 



To secure an early crop, start the plants off 

 in the hot-bed. This is quite necessary at the 

 north, if one would get the full benefit of the 

 plant, as many sorts, grown from planting in 

 the open ground, will not mature their crop 

 before frost comes. 



Do not set the seedlings from the hot-bed 

 out in the ground until there is no longer any 

 danger of frosty weather, as they are very 

 tender. It may be necessary to cover them 

 on cold nights, after they are set out, even if 

 the temperature does not go low enough for 

 frost, as a chill will injure them almost as 

 much as an actual freeze, so delicate are they. 



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