. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. I [Solanum lycopersicum, Lin. Tomate, Fr. The Tomato, so extensively giown near all large markets in this country, where its high price early in the .'-eason is a great iudiiceuient to gardeners to produce a crop, is exceediugly wholesome, and is considered almost indispensable in every family. Culture.—The cultivation of this delicious vegetable has increased rapidly within the last few years. They flourish
. Bliss and Son's illustrated spring catalogue and amateur's guide to the flower and kitchen garden. Flowers Catalogs; Plants Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. I [Solanum lycopersicum, Lin. Tomate, Fr. The Tomato, so extensively giown near all large markets in this country, where its high price early in the .'-eason is a great iudiiceuient to gardeners to produce a crop, is exceediugly wholesome, and is considered almost indispensable in every family. Culture.—The cultivation of this delicious vegetable has increased rapidly within the last few years. They flourish best in a warm, light, rich soil. For early use suvv in February or March, in boxes or pots, and place near a window or in a liotbed. When about two inches high, prick them out singly in small pots, and nurse carefully in frames, and when the danger of frost is passed plant them out in a sheltered situation, where they may have the full influence of the sun. To hasten the maturity of the lirst fruit which sets, pinch off the extremities of the tops, and all the second- ary shoots which afterwards appear above the tlowers. When the desired number are about half grown, commence stripping off the leaves, cutting off the new shoots, so that at length the plants may be completely bared of their leaves, and flie fruit left fully exposed to the sun. A conven- ient and inexpensive way of training may be seen in cuts of Hoop and Trellis Training. NEW TOMATOES. LITTLE GSM (The Earliest Variety Known). This variety was raised by Mr. Pringle, the oi'iginator of the Conqueror Tomato heretofore con- sidered the earliest in cultivation, and is a combined hybrid or cross of that popular variety with the Red Currant and two other unnamed early varieties of tine quality. The vines are of medium length, compact growth, and excessively loaded with bright red fruit of medium size, round and of uniform shape, varying from four to six inches in circumference, of superior quality flavor, either raw
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