. Dreer's garden book 1924. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 44 Jl^^^^^i<iAtS';t^i<;ii*-i;itiiJpMiBR% Tomate, Fr. Tomale. Sp. Liebesapfe!, Ger. D \i^ti^ oS4uiD Tomato CULTUEE —For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Eariiana, under glass, or in the house, about middle of February, giving the young seedlings plenty of light for rapid development. When they are 3 to 4 inches tall, transplant them into flats or a spent hot
. Dreer's garden book 1924. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 44 Jl^^^^^i<iAtS';t^i<;ii*-i;itiiJpMiBR% Tomate, Fr. Tomale. Sp. Liebesapfe!, Ger. D \i^ti^ oS4uiD Tomato CULTUEE —For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Eariiana, under glass, or in the house, about middle of February, giving the young seedlings plenty of light for rapid development. When they are 3 to 4 inches tall, transplant them into flats or a spent hotbed, to stand 4 inches apart each way. Give plenty of air on sunny days to harden them properly. Such plants should start bearing middle of June, and continue for the best part of 2 months. For the main crop, sow seeds of later vari- eties in a hotbed, or warm cold frame by April 1st. Around Decoration Day, prepare spaces 3 feet apart each way, digging the hole a foot deep and of equal diameter and filling this with well-rotted stable manure or humus. Set the plants into these spaces and to prevent loss from cut worms surround the young plants with a collar of cardboard. Where the young plants are grown in paper pots, set them into the ground, pots and all, just tearing out the bottom. HOW TO GROW THE MOST PERFECT CROPS Cultivate freely and by July 1st you should have nice stocky plants about a foot taU and 12 to 18 inches across. Drive stakes 5 to 6 feet tall to these plants, and reduce them to 3 or 4 of the strongest branches. Waste no sympathy on the rest for the cutting out of superfluous foliage and branche; ^\ill throw the energy of the entire plant into those selected to bear the crop. Tie the plants to the stakes and go over the patch on an average of once a week, to remove side shoots and suckers that -nill appear in great quantities at the leaf joints or at base of plant. By August 1st, these plants will have reached the top of the 5 foot stakes and should be libera
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