Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-05-21

This crop has become of so much import
HGce that its cultivation may be said to be
carried on for two distinct purposes; for
market and for canning. The requisite quail
tiles in a tomato are earliness smoothness.
solid flesh good size, small seed-cells, few
seeds, absence of green core, and good color
and flavor. Unfortunately the variety having
the most solid fesh-the Trophy-has the
fault of remaining green around the stem
and some of the early varieties have not the
requisite degree of solidity. A leading firm
recommends the following varieties as special
ly adapted for canning: Acme, Arlington.
Hathaway Excelsior, Gene raj Grant Paragon
and Queen. A defect in the canned tomatoes
of the trade is that they are too watery. and
are doubtless more so than they would be if
more attention were paid to the selection of
solid fruit. For family use, We would recon-
mend the following: Hathaway's Excelsior,
Acme, New York Market General Grant and
Trophy. The three first named are good va
rieties for early crop. There are not many
days difference in the ripenng periods of the
different kinds, and it is best to plant great
er proportion of the kinds having the most
solid flesh We would plant largely of
Trophy and Acme. The Trophy notwith-
standing its tendency to remain green around
the stem, cannot be excelled for family use
Much depends on the care given tomato
plants while i'll the hot-bed or greenhouse, in
order to have them do well when sci in the
open ground. Ii the plants are set too thick
ly, they will be likely to spindle, aud if too
much water be applied, the plants will grow
too rapidly and be soft, i'll which condition
they will not stand the wind when planted in
open ground Before setting, the plants
should be hardened by gradually exposing
them to "a cooler atmosphere. Sometimes it
happens that the plants become too long,
slender OF crooked. In such cases the stalk
should be laid in Il small trench furrow, and
bent npward at the proper point the bent
portion OF the stalk being covered with earth
This Is urch better way than setting the
plants deeply. Tomato plants are often
grown in pots, by which method the finest
plants art produced
For an early crop OF tomatoes light soil
and a southern exposure are preferred. On
such land the plants are set three feet apart
each way but for heavy soil, four feet Is
recommended In garden culture We would
prefer to have the plants trained to trellise,
This keeps the fruit clean and enables the
grower TO produce better specimens When
fine show fruit Is desired, pinching in OF the
shoots Is practiced. The soil for plants train
cd TO trellises should be well enriched, so as
to produce large fruit and an abundance of
foliage Tomatoes will do moderately well
on comparatively poor soil but where il is
desired to obtain large yield and have the
plants continue in bearing throughout the
season, the soil should be rich and well cul-
tivated. Being plant Of tropical nature, to-
lnatoes cannot be set out very early, Light
frosts may be kept of by covering with news
papers or if no better means are at hand
and the plants are not too large, they may be
very lightly covered with soil