The Tomato

Part 6

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Heterosis, 39

History, 15

Hitchcock, A. E., 24

Hoagland, D. R., 20

Home garden, 11, 26, 54, 79

Home Garden, variety, 47

Horn worms, 92

Hot beds, 57

Howlett, F. S., 24

Husk tomato, 51

Hybrid vigor, 39

Ideal variety, 42

Immature green, 95

Insects, 91

Internal nutrition, 29

Irrigation, 76

Jamison, F. S., 98

John Baer, 47

Juice, 14

Ketchup, 14

King Humbert, 51

Klebs, 29

Kraus, E. J., 29

Kraybill, H. R., 29, 33

Lanham, W. B., 34

Leaf blight, 86, 88

Lime, 25

Lindstrom, E. W., 41

Longevity, 38

Loomis, W. E., 66, 69

Lug box, 103

MacGillivray, J. H., 33, 95

Mack, W. B., 35

Manure, animal, 34

Marglobe, 48

Market diseases, 90

Marketing, 93

Mature green, 95

Maturity, 94

Mosaic, 88

Mulch, 76, 78

Murneek, A. E., 31

Myers, C. E., 47

Newell, J. M., 21

Nitrogen, 26, 28, 37

Nutritive value, 11, 15, 18

Packing, 103

Parthenocarpy, 24

Penn State, 47

Per capita consumption, 18

Phosphorus, 26, 32, 35

Physalis, 51

Placement of fertilizer, 35

Plant beds, open, 56

Plants for transplanting, 53

Pollination, 23, 39

Ponderosa, 51

Potash, 26, 34

Potassium nitrate, 35

Potato beetle, 91

Pots, clay, 60

Pots, paper, 60

Price, 16

Pritchard, variety, 50

Pritchard, F. J., Frontispiece, 48, 87

Protectors, 72

Pruning, 67, 79

Puffiness, 102

Purdum, L. W., & Sons, 78

Puree and paste, 14

Rahn, E. M., 35

References, 11, 12, 119

Requirements, 20

Ripening, 96

Roadside selling, 112

Rosa, J. T., 69

Running to vine, 29

Rutgers, 50

Sando, C. E., 96

San Marzano, 51

Saving seed, 39, 40

Sayre, C. B., 35

Scarlet Dawn, 48

Seed, 38

Seed Sowing, 56, 63

Seed treatment, 63

Seedless fruits, 24

Selection, 40

Selling, 93, 110

Septoria, 86

Setting fruit, 29

Side dressing, 35, 37

Smith, Ora, 23

Soil, field, 25

Soil, plant growing, 63

Solution culture, 18

Southern plants, 56

Spacing in field, 73

Staking, 79

Stalk borer, 92

Starter solutions, 35, 75

Statistics, 16

Sterilizing soil, 63, 90

Stokesdale, 48

Stout, G. J., 35

Sunscald, 83

Temperature for plant growing, 65

Thompson, H. C, 82, 83, 98

Tiedjens, V. H., 37

Training, 79

Transplanters, 74

Transplanting, 66, 74

Trellis system, 79

Uses, 14

Varieties, 46

Vegetation and fruitfulness, 29

Victor, 47

Virus, 88

Water culture, 18

Watering, 74

Watering plants, 65

Watts, V. M., 70

Wellington, Richard, 39

Work, Paul, 31

Wright, R. C., 98

Yeager, A. F., 46, 47

Yellows (See also fusarium), 88

Yield, 16, 17, 117

Zimmerman, P. W., 24

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Hoagland, D. R. and Arnon, D. I. The water culture method for growing plants without soil. Calif. Exp. Sta. Cir. 347. Dec. 1938.

[2] Arthur, J. M., Guthrie, J. D. and Newell, J. M. Some effects of artificial climates on the growth and chemical composition of plants. Amer. Jour. Bot. 17:416-482. 1930.

[3] Smith, Ora and Cochran, H. L. Effect of temperature on pollen germination and tube growth in the tomato. Cornell Memoir 175. 1935.

[4] Howlett, F. S. Use of chemicals to stimulate fruitfulness in tomatoes. Veg. Growers Asso. of America Rept. 1941, pp. 203-214. 1941.

Zimmerman, P. W. and Hitchcock, A. E. Formative effects induced with B-Naphthoxyacetic acid. Contribution from Boyce Thompson Inst. Vol. 12 #1, April-June, 1941.

[5] Fertilizer recommendations are best given in form of pounds per acre of nitrogen (N), phosphoric acid (P_{2}O_{5}) and potash (K_{2}O). These figures are then translated into pounds per acre of materials or of mixed fertilizers.

[6] Kraus, E. J. and Kraybill, H. R. Vegetation and reproduction with special reference to the tomato. Oreg. Bul. 149. 1918.

[7] Work, Paul. Nitrate of Soda in the nutrition of the tomato. Cornell Memoir 75. 1924.

[8] Murneek, A. E. The effects of fruit on vegetative growth in plants. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. Rpt. 1924, pp. 274-276.

[9] MacGillivray, J. H. Effect of phosphorus on the composition of the tomato plant. Jour. Agr. Res. 34: 97-127. 1927.

[10] Hepler, J. H. and Kraybill, H. R. Effect of phosphorus upon yield and maturity of the tomato. N. H. Tech. Bul. 28. 1925.

[11] Mack, W. B., Stout, G. J., and Rahn, E. M. Fertilizer experiments with tomatoes. Penn. Exp. Sta. Bul. 393. 1940.

[12] Sayre, C. B. Starter Solutions. Farm Research (N.Y. Expt. Sta.) Vols. V, VI, and VII, No. 2, April, 1939, 1940, and 1941.

[13] Wellington, Richard. Comparison of first generation tomato crosses and their parents. Minn. Tech. Bul. 6. 1922.

[14] Loomis, W. E. Studies in the transplanting of vegetable plants. Cornell Memoir 87. 1925.

[15] Watts, V. M. Factors affecting production of wrinkled tomato fruits. Proc. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 30: 513-517. 1934.

[16] Emerson, R. A. Experiments in mulching garden vegetables. Neb. Bul. 80. 1903.

[17] Thompson, H. C. Pruning and training tomatoes. Cornell Sta. Bul. 580. 1934.

[18] MacGillivray, J. H. Tomato color as related to quality in canning. Ind. Bul. 350. 1931.

[19] Sando, C. E. The process of ripening in the tomato, considered especially from the commercial standpoint. U.S.D.A. Bul. 859. 1920.

[20] Wright, R. C. et al. Effect of various storage temperatures on storage and ripening of tomatoes. U.S.D.A. Tech. Bul. 268. 1931.

[21] Platenius, H., Jamison, F. S., and Thompson, H. C. Studies on cold storage of vegetables. Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 602. 1934.