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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners . 
TOMATOES. 
TOMATO — DANIELS' KING GEORGE V. 
Reduced from a rhoteyropU 
per pkt. — s. (1. 
DT DANIELS’ KING GEORGE V. This grand variety 
introduced by us two years ago has proved itself one ol 
the most useful sorts for all purposes. It is of strong 
constitution and a free setter. The fruit which are 
of a rich glowing scarlet colour, are of perfect shape 
and of excellent flavour. For exhibition purposes it will 
prove a great acquisition . . . . . • . . 1 t> 
DT DANIELS’ KING EDWARD VII. This fine 
Tomato is a decided advance on most existing varieties, 
and certainly one of the best yet sent out. It is a free 
setter, and an abundant bearer. The large, splendidly 
coloured fruits, which are produced in handsome 
clusters of eight to ten or twelve, are very deep, almost 
round in form, and very solid and heavy, whilst in 
flavour it is all that can be desired. This fine Tomato is 
admirably suited for growing in pots, and will be found 
a really first-class variety, alike for the market grower 
or amateur exhibitor . . . . . . ..10 
DV AILSA CRAIG. A new variety of great excellence, 
bearing a heavy crop of fine shaped, grand coloured 
fruit, which are produced in great ropes and trusses. It 
is a very free setter, bearing up to eight and ten bunches 
on a plant. A good sort for pot culture and exhibition 
work . . . . . . • • • • ..10 
DV* WISETON PROLIFIC (new). A grand variety raised 
by Mr. Musk, The Gardens, Wiseton Hall. The fruit, 
which are of good size, are of grand colour, very firm, 
and of excellent flavour. It is enormously prolific and 
will be found first-class for exhibition . . ..10 
Cultivation.— One of the chief tilings which has contributed to th r 
great popularity of the Tomato is the fact that it is so very easily grown. 
It is now generally recognised that Tomatoes can be quite successfully 
cultivated without such heavy dressings of manure as were used at one 
time, although there are certain periods when good liberal dressings of 
manure are necessary ; but when tlio plants aro young they do not need it 
For the earliest Spring crop the seed should bo sown in January or 
early in Fobruary in pots or pans of light rich soil, and those should be 
placed on a shelf in tho greenhouso ; the vessol should bo covered over 
with a sheot of glass to hold the moisture and kept at an even temperature 
until the seed has germinated. As soon as the plants have formed the 
seed leaf, have them potted off singly into three-inch pots and grow them 
on in a warm house, potting on into six-inch pots later, in which sizo they 
should remain until permanently planted out in tho borders, or potted 
into the fruiting pots. 
Many peoplo prefer to grow thoir early crops in pots ten inches to 
twelve inches in diameter, claiming (we believe rightly) that they nr 
better able to attend to the careful watoring of the plants and thus avoid 
any injury to the roots. The treatment of young Tomato plants is pretty 
much the same as would be given to early Cucumbers, they Bhould hav- 
a temperature of 60° during the day, and not less than 50° — 56° at night. 
For a main crop sow the seed in February or March, then transfer into 
pots as before advised ; it is of great importance that the plants be kept 
sturdy and therefore air should be given on all favourable occasion 
The drainage of both the pots in whioh the young plants aro grown on and 
the borders or boxes in which they are to fruit should bo very carefully 
looked to, so as to allow of their receiving copious supplies of water, 
especially during the fruiting period. When planted out in the greenhouse 
border, the plants should bo placed about 18 inches apart and supported 
either by means of a stako or tied up with soft string to the roof, all sid< 
growths should be cleared off as they appear, and only the main stem 
allowed to grow away, this boing stopped when it reaches tho glass, or 
when three or four trusses of fruit have been set. 
The best soil for Tomatoes is a good rich loam to which has been added 
a light dressing of farmyard manure, say one-fifth of the bulk; many 
growers do not put any manure in the soil at the time of planting, leaving 
the feeding until the first truss of fruit has set, when they apply regular 
dressings of artificial manure, or give a mulching of well-decayed manm 
and water the same thoroughly in. In no case must the manure used b-. 
taken from a h«ap that i? heated or the result will he disastrous. 
