. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. TOMATO peaches, and forwarded by "ventilated fast ; This meets the early spring demand, but the fruit ripens unevenly and is frequently unsalable at the expected fancy figures on account of its appearance. A growing tendency has been lately manifested
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. TOMATO peaches, and forwarded by "ventilated fast ; This meets the early spring demand, but the fruit ripens unevenly and is frequently unsalable at the expected fancy figures on account of its appearance. A growing tendency has been lately manifested to ship as the fruit is coloring, after careful and syste- matic grading, in "four-basket carriers " by refrigerator TOMATO 1817. surplus moisture. The feeding power of the roots should be reduced and evaporation stimulated from the soil. Possibly a light application of superphosphate at time of cultivation would also prove beneficial. Black rot, or blossom end rot, a widespread affection causing great loss of fruit, and quite familiar to all, seems to have long been erroneously ascribed solely to one of the forms of Macrosporium— the fa- miliar early blight of the potato — and Bor- deaux mixture is consequently suggested as a remedy. Recent investigations by Earle seem to indicate that the real cause of the malady is no fungus but a bacillus, incapable, unaided, of penetrating the outside tissues of the fruit, but rapidly developing on abraded surfaces or in insect wounds of any kind. cars. Despite the extra cost of icing and the later ship- ment, quality and prices are thereby more satisfactorily maintained and the northern public will soon insist al- together on this more rational method being put into practice universally. The sorting and grading cannot be carried too far, since the culls and second-class fruits are equally as good for the cannery as first grades and hence the standard of excellence may always be main- tained without material loss. Ftingous D
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