. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. GROWING TOMATOES NEAR HAMILTON 4k I HA\'E 48 acres uiulcr cultivation at J. my house and 25 acres in another place," said Air. E. J. Mahony. president of the Hamilton District Tomato Growers' Association, to a representative of The Canadian Horticulturist who visited his place during Ma\-. " About 30 acres of this is in the vegetable garden. .\11 kinds of vegetables are grown. " Market gardeners about Hamilton have grown tomatoes in past years for the canners. The latter have been pay- i
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1905. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. GROWING TOMATOES NEAR HAMILTON 4k I HA\'E 48 acres uiulcr cultivation at J. my house and 25 acres in another place," said Air. E. J. Mahony. president of the Hamilton District Tomato Growers' Association, to a representative of The Canadian Horticulturist who visited his place during Ma\-. " About 30 acres of this is in the vegetable garden. .\11 kinds of vegetables are grown. " Market gardeners about Hamilton have grown tomatoes in past years for the canners. The latter have been pay- ing 25 cents a bushel, Init this year the mem- bers of the Tomato Growers' Association refused to make contracts at less than 30 cents. This the canners have refused to give, and by present appearances there will be few tomatoes grown. Xo contracts have been made, so far as I know, by an}- of the mem'bers of the association at last season's rates. The canners are dealing with new people and endeavoring to get them to grow tomatoes. Without contracts they cannot depend on a supply, and I do not believe they have succeeded in getting many to contract. We will be able to sell what tomatoes we raise in baskets and to obtain reasonable prices. " The growers raise their own tomato plants. For the earliest the seed is sown about March 1. and for the general crop about Alarch 20. They are started in frames. We grow our own seed. I have been ottered as high as per 1,000 for tomato plants in the canners' interest. " The Late Ignotum has been the best variety I have grown. The last two years they appear to have run out. The Stone is the next best. It is a week later, but by saving the seed from the earliest fruit it can be made earlier. The Earliana is the best early variety. It is of good quality and smooth. Canners are glad to get it. '' Tomato seed was sown as usual this season bv the members of the Tomato Growers' Association, but about a month ago a circular was sent o
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