Tomato — Eggplant 



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Mikado, Puritan, Shah, and others. The first of the well-marked 



grandifolium varieties were purple, but a yellow one is grown, 

 and this year [1891] a red one (Red Mikado) has appeared. 



(e) Var. validum. Upright tomato. Stem very thick and stout, 

 the plants nearly sustaining themselves, two to two and a half 

 feet high; leaves very dark green, short and dense, the leaflets 

 wrinkled and more or less recurved. An odd plant with much 

 the aspect of a potato plant. Represented by the French Upright 

 or Tree, which has red fruits. The Dwarf Champion is perhaps 

 a cross between this type and the common tomatoes. The Sta- 

 tion tomato which is a cross between French Upright and Alpha 

 (var. vulgare) has given an interesting series of variations. 



Diseases, etc. The chief diseases of tomatoes are rot and 

 blight. There is no specific for either disease. Rot is rarely 

 very serious during the entire season. Endeavor to get the crop 

 early, before the rot takes it. For blight, practice rotation, and 

 burn diseased vines (do not throw them on the manure pile). 

 Consult the following : 



Tomato worm, Fla. Bull. 48, desc. and ill.; Ky. Bull. 66. 

 Use Paris green. 



Rot and fruit mold, Dept. Agric. Rept. 1888, p. 339, desc. and 

 ill. Thorough spraying with Bordeaux mixture recom- 

 mended by some. See remarks on p. 392, two last lines. 



Scab, Dept. Agric. Rept. 1888, p. 347, desc. and ill.; Conn. 

 Bull. 115. Train high and use Bordeaux mixture. 



Blight. Practice rotation. See paragraph above. 



For special literature on tomatoes, consult the books of Living- 

 ston, Root, Day, Mitchell. 



EGGPLANT 



The essentials in eggplant culture are practically the 

 same as in tomato culture, except that the plant requires 

 a still longer season, and greater pains must he taken that 

 the young plants are not checked. 



