Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . ess importance than qualities of fruit. Habits of growth.—\Miether it be standard ordwarf, compact or spreading, is sometimes of great im-portance as fitting the sorts for certain soils and meth-ods of culture. On heavy, moist, rich land, wherestaking and pruning are essential to the productionof fruit of the best quality, i
Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . ess importance than qualities of fruit. Habits of growth.—\Miether it be standard ordwarf, compact or spreading, is sometimes of great im-portance as fitting the sorts for certain soils and meth-ods of culture. On heavy, moist, rich land, wherestaking and pruning are essential to the productionof fruit of the best quality, it is of importance thatwe use sorts whose habits of growth fit them for it;while on warm, sandy, well-drained land, staking andpruning may be of little value, and a different habit ofgrowth more desirable. We have sorts in which thevine is relatively strong growing with few branches,upright, with long nodes and small fruit clusters wellscattered over the vine. They are usually very pro-ductive through a long season but generally late inmaturing. Stocks of this type are sometimes sold, 97 98 ( rLflRE i think improperly, as giant climbing, or Tree Buckeye State is a good type of these sorts. (Fig- 3I-)Other varieties make a stout and vigorous but. FIG. 31—BUCKEYE STATE, SHOWING LONG NODES AND DISTANCEBETWEEN FRUIT CLUSTERS shorter growth, with more and heavier branches,shorter nodes and many small medium-sized clustersof fruit well distributed over the plant and whichmature through a fairly long season. These sorts areusually very productive and our most popular varie-ties generally belong to this type, of which the Stone(Fig. ^2) is a good representative of the more com-pact and the Beauty of the»more open growing. Other varieties form many short, weak, sprawling
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