. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. shipped long distant the apple and more s and stored on shelvt Tomatoes from one' And to please the ilmost as readily and safely as m the peach, and which, picked ill prolong the season of fresh 'n garden till Christmas time, we have the Golden Queen, of clear yellow with. iful red cheek, or the White Apple —ne
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. shipped long distant the apple and more s and stored on shelvt Tomatoes from one' And to please the ilmost as readily and safely as m the peach, and which, picked ill prolong the season of fresh 'n garden till Christmas time, we have the Golden Queen, of clear yellow with. iful red cheek, or the White Apple —nearly white — or the Peach, covered with bloom and as lieautiful in color as a peach. For pick- ling we have the Red Plum and Yellow Plum, the Red Pear- .Shaped and the Yel- low Pear-Shaped, the Red Cherry and the Yellow Cherry, and the cherry-like exquisite- flavored Burbank's Preserving. Every season there are new and more or less dis- and very truly of the ftto, like the making of W. M. Tkacy. 2520. The o forms of To: gular and th) tinot varieties added to the lists; making of new varieties of Tom: books, there is no end. Tomatoes Under General Field Conditions. — Tomatoes should he started in hotbeds. To make the beds, select a sheltered place on the south side of a bank or erect some shelter on the north side from where the hot- bed is to be made. Dig a hole about a foot deep, 8 feet wide and as long as needevt it nil'.- and lino, then sow the seed in drills wh are made aliout 2 inches apart by a marker. Sow seed by hand; the sash is then put on close to the &. at the lower end of the bed the frame higher at the end next to the bank so tl: off; the bed is banked up all around S( in. In this wav ihr liid will be kept warm tlir sr,-,l will soon conn- uji. All. r tin- ].lants are up iii.'. ly, tiny will need sonu' air tliat ihey may become Ijai-dcn. .1 ami grow stocky. \'mitilatiiiL' ran lie done by rais- in;; tilt' of the sash and putting a lilock und
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