Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato

Chapter 1

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TOMATO DISEASES 131

INDEX 148

ILLUSTRATIONS

FIGURE PAGE

1. Where new varieties of tomatoes are developed and tested _Frontispiece_

2. Tomato flowers 2

3. Two-celled tomato 3

4. Three-celled tomato 3

5. Currant tomato and characteristic clusters 5

6. Red cherry tomato 6

7. Pear-shaped tomato 8

8. Yellow plum tomato 9

9. One of the first illustrations of the tomato 11

10. An early illustration of the tomato 12

11. Typical bunch of modern tomatoes 27

12. Tomatoes trained to stakes in the South 35

13. Three-sash hotbed 52

14. Cross-section of hotbed 53

15. Cold-frames on hill-side 54

16. Transplanting tomatoes under cloth-covered frames 56

17. Spotting-board for use in cold-frames 61

18. Spotting-board for use on flat 62

19. Tomatoes sown and allowed to grow in hotbeds 69

20. Planting tomatoes on a Delaware farm 75

21. Training tomatoes in Florida to single stake 81

22. Tomato plant trained to single stake 82

23. Method of training to three stems in forcing-house and out of doors 83

24. Training on line in greenhouse 84

25. Ready to transplant in greenhouse 85

26. Training young tomatoes in greenhouse at New York experiment station 86

27. Tomatoes in greenhouse at the Ohio experiment station 87

28. Forcing tomatoes in greenhouse at New Hampshire experiment station 88

29. Florida tomatoes properly wrapped for long shipment 93

30. Greenhouse tomatoes packed for market 95

31. Buckeye State, showing long nodes and distance between fruit clusters 98

32. Stone, and characteristic foliage 99

33. Atlantic Prize, and its normal foliage 101

34. Dwarf Champion 103

35. A cutworm and parent moth 124

36. Flea-beetle 125

37. Margined blister beetle 125

38. Tomato worm 126

39. Tomato stalk-borer 127

40. Characteristic work of the tomato fruit worm 128

41. Adult moth, or parent of tomato fruit worm 129

42. Proper way to make Bordeaux 137

43. Point-rot disease of the tomato 140

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