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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
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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
FREDERICK J. PRITCHARD1874-1931
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 | |
| 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 | ||