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The Tomato · Paul Work — chapter 2 of 27 · ~178 words · public domain

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INDEX 133

ILLUSTRATIONS

F. J. Pritchard Frontispiece

FIGURE

1. The tomato is the leader among greenhouse vegetables 19

2. The tomato flower 22

3. Long section of tomato flower 23

4. How nitrate nitrogen affects tomato growth 27

5. Effect of omission of phosphorus from complete fertilizer 33

6. Cultivating and side-dressing tomatoes 36

7. Types of tomato interiors 43

8. The Earliana tomato 45

9. Marglobe plant 48

10. Marglobe fruit 49

11. A good small greenhouse for plant growing 58

12. Plants for the early crop 61

13. Tin can prepared for sowing tomato seed 64

14. Plants that have been crowded and overgrown 69

15. Tomatoes pruned and trained with post, wire and twine 80

16. Fine clusters on trained plants 81

17. Resistance to fusarium wilt 87

18. Diseases of the tomato 89

19. Packing tomatoes on a farm 99

20. A California packing house 101

21. Puffiness is a common defect in tomatoes 102

22. The lug box 104

23. Lug boxes as loaded in car 105

24. The square braid basket 106

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