. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. i RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEM Tomate, Fr. TOMATO Tomate, Sp. Liebesapfel, Ger. CULTURE —For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Alpha, Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Earliana, 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 conti
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. i RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEM Tomate, Fr. TOMATO Tomate, Sp. Liebesapfel, Ger. CULTURE —For the first crop sow seeds of very early varieties like Alpha, Avon Early, Globe, or Spark's Earliana, 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 varieties 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. One ounce of seed will produce about 2500 plants. The Earliest Sorts 887 Alpha. Alpha fruits come very deep and smooth, plants are distinct, with heavy wide foliage, and bear in abundance bright red fruits which ripen evenly right up to the stem, and are solid and meaty. Pkt., 15 cts.; $ oz., 50 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; { lb., $ 888 Avon Early. An exceedingly early variety, maturing a few days before Earliana. Fruits large, round and very solid, of deep scarlet. Pkt., 10 cts.; j oz., 40 cts.; oz., 70 cts.; J lb., $ 894 Bonny Best. An early and productive variety, popular all over the country. Fruits are almost round, scarlet, somewhat flattened at stem end, and are pro- duced in abundance. This is also a good forcing Tomato. Pkt., 10 cts.; § oz., 25 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; i lb., $ 938 Earliana Spark's. A standard extra early. Fruits bright
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