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Garden Notes From New England 
Tomatoes tn the Home Garden.— 
Growing tomato plants has come to be 
an industry of great proportions around 
Boston and other large cities. Doubt¬ 
less many garden-makers would have 
grown their own if they had realized the 
high prices to be charged for plants this 
season, and yet when only a dozen or 
two are wanted, perhaps it is just as well 
to get them in the market. Years ago 
only a few varieties could be obtained, 
but now growers are offering a much 
wider choice. Nevertheless, the old-time 
Dwarf Champion probably outsells any 
other three kinds put together, and does 
it solely on the strong, stocky appearance 
of the plants. _ The Dwarf Champion is 
distinctly an inferior tomato, especially 
for canning, being very acid. If I were 
to advise any home gardener in New Eng¬ 
land about varieties, I should suggest that 
1\ 7 ew Zealand Spinach. Fiff. 278 
lie stick to Bonny Rest, with perhaps a 
few plants of Stone or Matchless for 
Eall. While Bonny Rest is not a large 
tomato, it is very prolific and of good 
flavor; likewise it is excellent to can, and 
it comes early. John Raer, which many 
market gardeners have been growing of 
late, can be obtained from some sources 
and proves to be a very good variety. Of 
all the different tomatoes I have tried, 
however, I have found none superior to 
Marketeer, seeds of which I obtained in 
Michigan. Unfortunately this variety is 
not well known in New England, but if 
it were it would prove, 1 think, one of the 
host tomatoes that could have a place in 
the kitchen garden. 
Setting Plants.— Tall, lanky plants 
are generally avoided if anything else can 
be obtained. Yet they may include some 
of ihe best varieties. There is no reason 
why plants of this kind should not he used 
if they are otherwise thrifty. It is only 
necessary when setting them out to make 
a furrow several inches long and bury 
half or more of the stems in it, the upper 
half being turned upward and made solid 
in the ground. This will give you a low- 
growing plant, well able to take care of 
itself, and as new rootlets will be thrown 
out all along the stem, which is under¬ 
ground, it will soon show surprisingly in¬ 
creased vigor. We used to be told that 
tomatoes should not be fertilized very 
heavily, but experience has shown that 
when they are well established they re¬ 
spond readily to an abundance of manure 
at (lie roots. I think there is no better 
way to get. a bumper crop of tomatoes in 
the little garden than to bury several 
quarts of poultry manure in t lie bottom of 
each hill. It should be put down far 
enough so that the roots will not reach 
it :it once, hut will find it after a few 
weeks’ growth. A little feeding with ni¬ 
trate of - soda after the fruit begins to 
color is also a good plan. About a tea¬ 
spoonful dug into the ground around the 
base of each plant is sufficient. 
Training the Tomato.— Much has 
been written about the desirability of 
training tomato plants to single stems, 
hut in my opinion this is not a plan for 
(he home garden. It requires too much 
labor for (ho results achieved. It may 
help, though, to do a little pruning of Si 
few plants in order to get tomatoes early. 
While the single-stem practice may not 
he advisable, it does pay, I think, to train 
(lie tomatoes on some kind of support. I 
like best an A-shaped trellis about four 
feet high, with two or three wires or 
pieces of scantling on each side. A 
double row of tomatoes can then he used 
on each support, and when trained in 
fan shape wilh three leading stems and 
given a certain rough pruning at inter¬ 
vals. they yield heavily and continuously, 
ripen evenly and are pretty free from 
decay. (See Fig. 277, page 1)73.) 
Preserving A’ a r i e t i e s. —Although 
the small so-called preserving tomatoes 
have been grown in private gardens for 
many years, it is only recently (hat they 
have been sold extensively in the mar¬ 
kets. Now, however, a demand for them 
has grown up and some market gardeners 
devote several acres to tomatoes of this 
type, choosing preferably the yellow va¬ 
rieties. One market gardener, a neigh¬ 
bor of mine, makes quite a specialty of 
these preserving tomatoes, and finds them 
profitable. 
Cloth on ITotreo Sasit.— When I 
looked over my hotbed t,ash this Spring 
I found that through one accident and 
another a large part of the glass had bo Pn 
broken out. and when I came to learn 
the cost of replacing the glass I began 
to think it. would be cheaper to buy mv 
early vegetables after all. Then it oc¬ 
curred to me to try the prepared doth 
which I had seen advertised ns a substi¬ 
tute for glass. In times past I had used 
cloth treated with linseed oil with fair 
success, and farther south cloth coverings 
for frames are often employed. This 
particular material is treated with some 
preparation which makes it much more 
satisfactory than any other cloth cover¬ 
ing I have ever seen. I simply removed 
what glass remained from my sashes and 
tackl'd on the cloth. I found it to ho 
rather hard to handle in a cold barn hut 
it became much more pliable when re¬ 
moved to a warm kitchen, although 1 must 
confess that my wife seemed to think 
that the barn floor was a much better 
place to mend hotbed sashes than the 
floor of the kitchen. There is a tempta¬ 
tion when putting on the cloth to draw 
it very taut, but a little slackness is de¬ 
sirable,_ so that the cloth can shrink a hit 
when it gets wet without tearing it 
This so-called glass cloth, while not trans¬ 
parent, admits the sunlight almost as 
freely as glass, and keeps the bed within 
one or two degrees as warm. Enough 
of the material for a single 3x6 sash 
costs about 07 cents, which is, of course 
much loss than the price of glass, and is 
put on in much less time. It has to he 
handled with a certain degree of earn 
however, for it is easily punctured, and 
the frame to which it is tacked must lie 
heavy enough to keep it where it belongs 
when strong winds blow. 
A Chard Substitute. —I shall plant 
no Swiss chard this year. New Zealand 
spinach does not come quite so early, hut 
it is in every way far superior to the 
chard. In fact, it has come to be one 
of the indispensable vegetables in my gar¬ 
den, and I find that other garden-makers 
are learning to appreciate it, although 
there are some who apparently have not 
learned its merits as yet. The seed is 
very hard, and should be soaked over¬ 
night. Even then it may he a little slow 
in coining up, so that the wise garden- 
maker uses a scattering of radish seeds 
to mark the rows, in order that: he may 
begin cultivation quickly. At first the 
plants need a little coddling, but after 
they become well established make ram¬ 
pant growth. They should have at least 
two feet of space on each side, which 
means, of course, that the seed should*be 
planted very thinly. It isn’t necessary to 
have more than two dozen plants, because 
they produce enormously and continuous-- 
ly. The plants are not pulled up as with 
ordinary spinach, but only the leaves re¬ 
moved, new growth being made immedi¬ 
ately. Unless very dose picking is done 
it often becomes advisable to cut the 
plants back somewhat to prevent their 
going too far afield. New Zealand spin¬ 
ach is excellent for Summer use, being at 
its best when common spinach cannot be 
grown at all, and it is among the best 
vegetables to can for Winter. No doubt 
it contains a liberal supply of vitamines, 
which are now supposed to be so essential 
to humanity. It is easily canned and 
in midwinter is almost as good as fresh 
green from the garden. All the members 
of my family consider it far superior to 
The Enylish Veyelable Marroxo. Fly. 279 
Swiss chard, either fresh or canned, al¬ 
though I have a suspicion that the chick¬ 
ens like the chard a bit the better. 
English Vegetable Marrow. — An¬ 
other vegetable which ought to be better 
known is the English vegetable marrow, 
which I consider far superior to the ordi¬ 
nary Summer squash. The average seeds¬ 
man offers only one variety, hut it is pos¬ 
sible to obtain half a dozen different 
kinds, including both bush and running 
varieties. ’The marrows are not quite so 
watery as Summer squash, and can be 
used over a long season. Those which 
become too mature for use as a vegetable 
can be made up into pies, making a good 
substitute for pumpkin, and the rirnl 
makes an excellent preserve. 
E. I. FARRINGTON 
