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filled the pots, plenty of water is necessary, and when a 
few trusses of flowers have set on each plant, liquid 
manure may be given freely to assist in swelling the fruit. 
As the plants grow, care must be taken to remove any 
side shoots which make their appearance, as a side shoot 
immediately above a truss of flowers may receive practi- 
cally all the food which should go to the formation of 
fruit. When the plants have set as many bunches of fruit 
as can be ripened before the cold and sunless days come 
on, the tops should be taken off, that all the energy of 
the plant may be utilized in swelling and maturing that 
already formed. It may also be advisable to take off 
some of the foliage to enable the sun to get at the fruit 
and assist in ripening it, but this should not be done to 
any great extent, as it is in the leaves that the food is 
manufactured for the formation of fruit, &c. Therefore, 
only those covering the fruit should be taken off. 
Of course, in a small greenhouse, where other plants 
are of the first importance, it is not possible to cultivate 
a large crop of tomatoes, but with judicious treatment a 
nice crop may be obtained, which will fully repay the 
care bestowed on it. The plants lend an additional 
charm to the greenhouse and the garden generally. 
THE GARDEN FRAME 
No garden should be without this most useful and in- 
expensive structure. There are many plants which require 
some protection during winter, yet do not require heat, 
such as the Calceolarias, &c. Again, there are many of 
our half-hardy annuals which require the protection of a 
