. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Massachusetts Periodicals; Fertilizers -- Analysis Periodicals. '7 shoots of the tomato resemble somewhat the condition of the rose leaf in bronz- ing, since they are more or less crowded and stunted in appearance and obtain a limited amount of nourishment. They are of little or no account and add nothing to the general welfare of the plant, and in any system of pruning the axillary suckers should be nipped out as soon as they occur, and not allowed to develop at the expense of the plant. The experiments in this series were made for the purpose of testing the effects
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- Massachusetts Periodicals; Fertilizers -- Analysis Periodicals. '7 shoots of the tomato resemble somewhat the condition of the rose leaf in bronz- ing, since they are more or less crowded and stunted in appearance and obtain a limited amount of nourishment. They are of little or no account and add nothing to the general welfare of the plant, and in any system of pruning the axillary suckers should be nipped out as soon as they occur, and not allowed to develop at the expense of the plant. The experiments in this series were made for the purpose of testing the effects of various methods of pruning on the size and production of fruit, and on crops grown during several years. They were conducted in two different types of greenhouses, both of which were heated with hot water. One of these houses had been devoted to lettuce and "^ the other to crops of cucumbers. The temperature, light and moisture condi- tions in both houses were suitable for tomatoes at any season of the year. The cucumber house, which is designated as No. I, is 24 ft. by 24 ft. and runs east and west with the roof sloping towards the south. It has five benches iS ft. long, 2J2 ft. wide and I ft. deep, running east and west, each bench having an elevation six inches higher than the one adjacent to it on the south side. The glass in the lower part of the house is about 6 ft. from the benches, and in the upper part about 8 ft. from them. Each bench is furnished with a wire trellis upon which the plants are trained. House No. 2 is an even span structure, 12 ft. by 40 ft., running east and west with ground beds in the same direction. The plants in this house were trained to sticks placed obliquely. The plants on the south side in each house were the more favorably situated with respect to light, but the experiments were so arranged. Fig. 2. Single St€7)1 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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