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Tomatoes. 
The tomatoes were started in the hot bed, transplanted to three- 
inch pots and transferred to frames in the manner described for 
egg plant on p. 566. They were trained on frames which were 
made of strips two inches wide and one inch thick nailed to 
supports four feet long, four inches wide and two inches thick, as 
illustrated in figure 1. The supports were fastened together at the 
top like rafters of a roof; the lower end, set four feet apart, were 
held together by a cross strip two inches wide by one inch thick. 
The supports were therefore triangular in form, each side measur 
ing four feet. They were set ten feet apart in the row. The 
strips, four in number for each side, were placed a foot apart and 
fastened to the support by a single nail, so that at the end of the 





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Fie. 1.— Tomato frame. 
season the frames might be readily taken apart and stored com- 
pactly. The lower strip was set a foot from the bottom and the 
upper strip at the very top. The distance between the frames 
was three feet, so that each row was separated from the adjacent 
row on one side by a distance of three feet, and from the row on 
‘the other side by the width of the frame, a distance of four feet. 
The plants were set close to the frames two feet apart in the row. 
The ground was not manured before being plowed, but holes 
were dug for each plant, and ashovelful of well-rotted stable 
manure was put in each hole and covered with dirt taken from 
the hole. The ball of earth around the roots of the plant was 
crushed and the transplanting performed in the manner described 
_ for egg plant on p. 566. The plants were trained by permitting 
but one branch to grow on each side of the main stem thus giv- 
ing three fruiting stems to each plant. All other laterals were 
taken off as fast as they appeared and about one-third of the 
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