. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. with certain iiicthcKls of transplanting. The disease on tomatoes does not destroy the foHage of the plant, but the abnormal meta- bolic processes which api^ear to be associated with this disease apparently affect the yield. A thorough study of this trouble is now being made in our greenhouse by Mr. G. H. Chapman,^ and will be reported on later. 1 \ \. \ . '. / ^ \ \ kV Fig. 9, showing the characteristic spotting due to mosaic disease of the tomato. SOIL CONDITIONS FOR TOMATOES The nature and conditions o
. Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Agriculture -- Massachusetts. with certain iiicthcKls of transplanting. The disease on tomatoes does not destroy the foHage of the plant, but the abnormal meta- bolic processes which api^ear to be associated with this disease apparently affect the yield. A thorough study of this trouble is now being made in our greenhouse by Mr. G. H. Chapman,^ and will be reported on later. 1 \ \. \ . '. / ^ \ \ kV Fig. 9, showing the characteristic spotting due to mosaic disease of the tomato. SOIL CONDITIONS FOR TOMATOES The nature and conditions of the soil in which tomatoes are grown has much to do with the size of the crop and health of the plants. Plants grown in rich loam, of good texture, will develop a dark green color and luxuriant grow'th of foliage, w^hereas those grown in a poor soil will be light in color and spindling in ap- I)earance; moreover, feeble plants are much more susceptible to disease. We have repeatedly observed that the best crops are obtained the first year and that in succeeding years the crops 1. Mass. Agr. Exp. Sta., Ann. Rept., 1908, pp. 136— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974
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