. Dreer's garden book 1925. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 44 /flMM^iaaiCTztiiAtlr^^^AiiiiiK^^ijp™^^ Tomale, Fr. Tomate, Sp. TOMATO Licbcsapfd, Ger. CULTURE—For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Earliana, under glass, or in the house, about middle of February, giving the young seedlings plenty of light for rapid development. When they are 3 to 4 inches tall, transplant them into flats or a spent hotbed, to stand 4 inches
. Dreer's garden book 1925. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 44 /flMM^iaaiCTztiiAtlr^^^AiiiiiK^^ijp™^^ Tomale, Fr. Tomate, Sp. TOMATO Licbcsapfd, Ger. CULTURE—For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Earliana, under glass, or in the house, about middle of February, giving the young seedlings plenty of light for rapid development. When they are 3 to 4 inches tall, transplant them into flats or a spent hotbed, to stand 4 inches apart each way. Give plenty of air on sunny days to harden them properly. Such plants should start bearing middle of June, and continue for the best part of 2 months. For the main crop, sow seeds of later vari- eties in a hotbed, or warm cold frame by April 1st. Around Decoration Day, prepare spaces 3 feet apart each way, digging the hole a foot deep and of equal diameter and filling this with weU-rotted stable manure or humus. Set the plants into these spaces and to prevent loss from cut worms surround the young plants with a coUar of cardboard. Where the young plants are grown in paper pots, set them into the ground, pots and all, just tearing out the bottom. One ounce of seed will produce about 2500 plants. How to Grow the Most Perfect Crops Cultivate freely and by July 1st you should have nice stocky plants about a foot tall and 12 to 18 inches across. Drive stakes 5 to 6 feet tall to these plants, and reduce them to 3 or 4 of the strongest branches. Waste no sympathy on the rest for the cutting out of superfluous foliage and branches will throw the energy of the entire plant into those selected to bear the crop. Tic the plants to the stakes and go over the patch on an average of once a week, to remove side shoots and suckers that will appear in great quantities at the leaf joints or at base of plant. By August 1st, these plants will have reached the top of the 5 foot s
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