. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Potato Leaf Tomato. Potato-Leaf.—Similar in habit of growth and foliage to the preceding; fruit of good size, purple color, and uniformly smooth. One of the best for home use or early market. Essex Hybrid, Volunteer, Optimus, and many others might be named that prove to be good and reliable sorts for all purposes. Golden Queen.—One of the best of the yellow sorts. Peach.—Quite distinct. Foliage much serrated and deli- cate. Fruit small, fine color and shape, growing in clusters. More interesting than practically useful, however. Lorillard.—S
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Potato Leaf Tomato. Potato-Leaf.—Similar in habit of growth and foliage to the preceding; fruit of good size, purple color, and uniformly smooth. One of the best for home use or early market. Essex Hybrid, Volunteer, Optimus, and many others might be named that prove to be good and reliable sorts for all purposes. Golden Queen.—One of the best of the yellow sorts. Peach.—Quite distinct. Foliage much serrated and deli- cate. Fruit small, fine color and shape, growing in clusters. More interesting than practically useful, however. Lorillard.—Superior for forcing, but also does well in open air. Fruit early, large, smooth and solid. Strawberry Tomato (Alkekengi), Physalis.—Fruits yel- low, of size of cherry, growing enclosed in a husk ; of sweetish, fruity flavor. Sometimes grown for preserves. The plant, when once grown, is apt to reproduce itself year after year from self- sown seed. \.i ^' Cultural Directions.—261 TURNIPS. Brasska napa {campestris). German. Steckrube, Kohlrube • French, Navet; Spanish, Nabo.—T\i^ market gardener has but litt e use and room for turnips, except to a limited extent for the early flat varieties, which are grown arid marketed in the same manner as early beets. The ground is made very rich by applica- tions of thoroughly-rotted compost, supplemented, if convenient with some good, plain superphosphate strewn in the drills and seed sown as early in spring as the soil can be got in readi- ness, in drills IS inches apart, using seed at the rate of two pounds per acre, and firming the soil in the often recommended manner. _ Cultivation etc.—Use the wheel-hoe as needed, and thin the plants when danger from flea beetle injury is past, to 2 or ^ r^m'! J^^!? J^' IT' ""?" ^^°"^ 2 '?"'^hes in diameter, pulf, trim, wash and bunch for market. Turnips as Farm turnips are of still greater importance as a fall crop for the farm. Sometimes thfy fin
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