TOMATO — Continued 
Comet. — This is a very popular sort for growing indoors or out, with a medium-sized fruit almost round, 
and of a rich scarlet colour. One of the best forcing tomatoes. 
Price, .25 per pkt. ; 1.25 per oz. 
Chalk’s Early Jewel. — One of the best early tomatoes, of medium size and very productive. The colour 
is a bright red and it is almost seedless. 
Price, .20 per pkt. ; .50 per oz. 
Golden Queen. — The largest yellow tomato, with an excellent flavour. Very attractive when sliced 
with the red sorts. _ . 
Price, .15 per pl<t.; .40 per oz. 
Ponderosa. — Without a doubt this is the largest tomato grown. The fruits are solid and of a bright 
crimson colour. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .60 per oz. 
Stokes’s Bonny Best. — This tomato will produce ripened fruit at the same time as the Earliana. The 
crop is always abundant and satisfying. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; .50 per oz. 
Carter’s Red Cherry. — A very prolific variety, about the size of a cherry. 
Price, .15 per pkt. 
Carter’s Yellow Cherry. — Companion variety to our Red Cherry. Colour, bright yellow. I n our opinion 
this yellow variety equals any of the red kinds for flavour that we have tasted. 
Price, .15 per pkt. 
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Carter’s Plum. — Plum shaped, of prolific habit and good flavour. 
Price, .25 per pkt. 
Carter’s Peach. — A curious variety, quite distinct from any other sort grown, quite peachlike in appear- 
aUCC ' Price, .15 per pkt. 
Carter’s Red Currant. — Smallest growing variety, hanging in long trasses, very prettv for decorative 
pUrp0SeS ' Price, .15 per pkt. 
The following can also be supplied, price .15 per pkt. 
Challenger. Hackwood Park. Hathaway’s Excelsior. Stirling Castle. 
Chemin Rouge. Ham Green Favourite. Large Red. Trophy. 
Harefield Golden Gem. Large Yellow. Carter’s Greengage. 
Cultivation of Tomatoes. — About the last week in February or the first week in Mareh is the proper time for starting 
seasonable plants. The plants can be started in greenhouses, hotbeds, window-boxes, or most any sunny spot where the 
temperature is never below sixty degrees. Sow the seed lightly in rows about 5 inches apart, and when the plants have 
reached a height of 2 inches transplant to other hotbeds or boxes, so that the plants are 4 or 5 inches apart each way. May 
15th until June 1st is a good period for the transplanting to the open ground. Set the plants deeply 4 feet apart mixing 
a good shovelful of well-rotted manure with the hilling soil of each plant; water freely at this time and protect for a few 
days from the sun during the midday. A clearer-coloured, better-flavoured, and larger fruit will be obtained by training 
the plants to a trellis. Tomatoes are rapidly growing in favour as a greenhouse vegetable, and the forcing varieties do well 
and show wonderful productions. The plants should be started late in August for a midwinter crop. One ounce of seed 
will produce two thousand to three thousand plants. 
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