Popular science monthly . hedfifteen feet. Tomatoes occasionally em-phasize their \ine-likc char-acteristics, probabK morefrequeiUK within doors thanout of doors. To produce tall tomatoplants in any place. [Much offor cut off the seed pods. All the energyof the tomato is then transferred into theterminal. The same principle may beapplied to any tree. Small trees, suchas willows and maples, if trimmed toomuch on the side will soar so high andbecome so slender that they will go overto the ground—top-hea\y, as the foresterwould call it. The species of tomato which usuallygrow to great height are
Popular science monthly . hedfifteen feet. Tomatoes occasionally em-phasize their \ine-likc char-acteristics, probabK morefrequeiUK within doors thanout of doors. To produce tall tomatoplants in any place. [Much offor cut off the seed pods. All the energyof the tomato is then transferred into theterminal. The same principle may beapplied to any tree. Small trees, suchas willows and maples, if trimmed toomuch on the side will soar so high andbecome so slender that they will go overto the ground—top-hea\y, as the foresterwould call it. The species of tomato which usuallygrow to great height are the small fruit grows in great profusion, and is soattractive in appearance that in manylocalities the vines are grown for decorativepurposes. It was the small red variet\which was formerly called the love-apjileand was culti\ated for its beauty longbefore it wasknown as anedible fruit. Theseplants withtheir profu-sion of darkfoliage, iftrained overwire netting,make goodgarden fences^\•herc space A tomato plant grown ina window-box. The plantattained a height of fifteenfeet and bore abundant fruit Valuable Products May Be Obtainedfrom Cherry Pits SIXT1:EX hundred tonsof cherry pits, now asource of annoyance andexpense to canneries, can bemade to yield two \aluableoils and also a meal for feed-ing cattle, according tospecialists of the U. S. De-partment of Agriculture. Inaddition the 105,000 gallonsof cherry juice now wastedin seeding cherries can beturned into desirable jellyand syrup, or even intoalcohol. A saving of these\aluablc by-products fromcherrj- canning may makepossible the domestic manu-facture of substitutes foralmond oil and bitter almondoil, now imported, and at thesame time establish a new in-diistr\- in the chcrr\ packingdistricts of the North Atlan-tic, North Central, and\\estern States. An Automobile-Pump Drivenfrom the Rear Wheel FOR pumping up automobile tires bythe power of the motor, the usualpractice is to mount the pump along w
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