Produced by Charlene Taylor, Betsie Bush, Scanned by Ray Bush and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net -------------------------------------- Transcriber's Note. Hyphenation has been standardized. -------------------------------------- THE TOMATO THE TOMATO _By_ PAUL WORK _Professor of Vegetable Crops, Cornell University_ _Editor of Market Growers Journal_ _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration: Printer's Logo] 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 [Illustration: FREDERICK J. PRITCHARD 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 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