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THE TOMATO

THE TOMATO

By PAUL WORK

Professor of Vegetable Crops, Cornell University Editor of Market Growers Journal

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK ORANGE JUDD PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 1945

COPYRIGHT, 1942, BY ORANGE JUDD PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This book or any part thereof, may not be reproduced without permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine or newspaper.

Copyright Under the Articles of the Copyright Convention of the Pan American Republics and the United States August 11, 1910

1874-1931

Originator of tomato varieties of improved type and resistant to disease]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION 11

I. THE TOMATO IS A GREAT FOOD AND CROP PLANT 13

II. CHOOSE THE SOIL AND FEED THE PLANT 25

III. THE BEST IN SEED IS NONE TOO GOOD 38

IV. STRONG PLANTS FOR EARLY MATURITY AND HEAVY CROP 53

V. GOOD CULTURE FAVORS GOOD RETURNS 71

VI. TO TRAIN THEM UP OR LET THEM SPREAD 79

VII. THE ETERNAL BATTLE WITH INSECTS AND DISEASES 85

VIII. SKILLFUL SELLING CROWNS THE ENTERPRISE 93

IX. OPERATING IN THE RED OR IN THE BLACK 116

REFERENCES 119