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the row, and the soil should be very rich and warm. 
New York Purple is the leading variety, but those 
who succeed with the Black Pekin cannot fail to be 
pleased with its large, glossy fruits. 
When all danger from frost is over, carefully 
transplant the Tomato plants from the cold frame to 
the open ground, to stand two feet apart in the row. 
As they grow tie them up on a trellis and remove 
all superfluous branches, so as to give the growing 
fruit the benefit of full sunshine, without which it 
will be of inferior quality and scarcely worth the 
having.* Nothing can be worse than allowing 
tomato plants to grow along the ground at will 
without any support. Better it would be not to grow 
any at all than to degrade them in that manner. 
Make a small trellis, four feet high, by nailing a few 
pieces of lath across small stakes driven into the 
ground. I regard Livingston’s Perfection as an 
excellent variety, and have grown extra large speci¬ 
mens of the Mikado , which, by the way, seems to have 
* It is the extreme richness of the soil, which is claimed by Miss Moll 
to be requisite to the growth of the Tomato, that, in her case, renders the 
use of the trellis and pruning necessary, as it induces too rank a growth 
of vine, covering the ground so that the sun and air cannot penetrate 
unless the vines are tied up. We can hardly see any degradation in allow¬ 
ing the plant liberty to grow in the manner intended by nature. More 
than this, as seedsmen, we pride ourselves on the new and improved 
varieties of Tomatoes that we have introduced, and the finest we have ever 
grown—finest alike for size, color, quality and productiveness—have been 
grown on poor clay soil, that looked fairly yellow when at all dry, and we 
have never been able to equal them on either rich heavy loam, or on light 
soils. We would not undervalue the tying up of a few plants for early 
use, but claim that it is unnecessary for the general crop.—E d. 
