. Vick's floral guide. A TRAINED TOMATO PLANT. To obtain fruit very early, sow in the hot-bed inMarch. In about five weeks plants should be trans-planted to another hot-bed, setting them about four orfive inches apart. Here they should remain, having allthe air possible, until about the middle of May, whenthey may be put out in the ground. If not too early ortoo cold, a cold-frame will answer for the first trans-planting. Pinching off a portion of the side branches,and stopping others just beyond where the fruit is formedhastens the ripening. Very good plants can be grownin boxes in the house.
. Vick's floral guide. A TRAINED TOMATO PLANT. To obtain fruit very early, sow in the hot-bed inMarch. In about five weeks plants should be trans-planted to another hot-bed, setting them about four orfive inches apart. Here they should remain, having allthe air possible, until about the middle of May, whenthey may be put out in the ground. If not too early ortoo cold, a cold-frame will answer for the first trans-planting. Pinching off a portion of the side branches,and stopping others just beyond where the fruit is formedhastens the ripening. Very good plants can be grownin boxes in the house. No plant will bear training better than the Tomato,and they can be made very pretty. We have describedbelow the very best varieties in the world, and none thatdo not possess some I. CURLED LEAF. 2. HATHAWAYS EXCELSIOR. Tomato, Hubbards Curled Leaf, the earliestof all the Tomatoes; small to medium in size,some specimens irregular; plant dwarf inhabit; set half the usual distance apart; theleaves curias though the plants were drying up ;per oz. 30 cents, 5 Conqueror, is an early Tomato, ripening afterthe Curled Leaf, and a few days before the It has no merit except its earliness ; toosoft for shipping ; per oz. 30 cents, 5 The Cardinal, skin brilliant, glossy, cardinal-red; flesh solid and of the same bright color;medium early, and ripens evenly; per oz. 30cents, 5 Tomato, Hathaways Excelsior, early, mediumto large, smooth as an apple; very solid, andof excellent quality every way; the best Tomatowe have ever grown; per oz., 40 cents.; per half oz., 25 cents, 5 Gen. Grant, a very superior, good sized To-mato, smooth, rather flat in form; of goodquality, and ripens rapidly and thoroughly; oz., 30 cents, 5 Mayflower, shape globular, slightly flattened,s
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