Diseases, 131 Bacterial wilt, 142 Blight, early, 135 Blight, leaf, 134 Blight, Western, 134 Cracking of fruit, 132 Damping off, 141 Edema, 133 Fusarium wilt, 144 Leaf curl, 132 Leaf mold, 135 Leaf spot, 134 Mildew, downy, 135 Mosaic disease, 133 Phytoptosis, 138 Point rot, 139 Root knot, 146 Sclerotium wilt, 145 Yellows, 134 Diseases, remedies for, 131 Bordeaux mixture, preparation of, 136 Preventatives of, 143 Spraying apparatus, 137 Spraying, importance of, 136 Sulphur spraying, 139 Distances for setting plants, 68 in field, 68 in greenhouse, 70 in home garden, 69 Drainage, importance of, 31 Essentials for best development, 28 Cultivation, 32, 76 Effect of shade, 28 Food supply, 31, 43 Heat, 30 Moisture, 30 Sunlight, 28 Exposure, 38 for early crop, 39 for greenhouse, 40 for home garden, 40 Fertilizers, 43 Amounts, 43 Character, 44 Experiments with, 45 for general application, 44 for greenhouse, 45 for home garden, 45 Flats, construction, 57 Gathering fruit, 91 Habit, 22 Handling fruit, 92 History, 14 Hotbeds, construction, 51 Hotbeds, growing fruit in, 70 House, construction, 49 Insects injurious to tomatoes, 123 Blister beetle, 125 Colorado potato beetle, 125 Cut worm, 123 Flea-beetle, 124 Stalk-borer, 127 Tomato fruit worm, 128 Tomato worm, 126 White fly, 130 Location of field as determining profit, 38 Manure Fall dressing, 41 for cold-frames, 55 for greenhouse soil, 37 for hotbeds, 51 in preparing ground, 46 Origin, 10 Origin of name, 14 Packing, 94 Pollinating, 77 Pollination, 25 Prices obtained at canneries, 118 for hothouse fruit, 122 for select field grown fruit, 122 Profits on crop, 122 Propagation of plants, 48 from cuttings, 49 from seed, 48, 49 in cold-frames, 53 in hotbeds, 51 in temporary greenhouses, 49 Pruning, 80 Ripening on the vines, 90 Ripening after frost, 95 Sash, cost, 49 for hotbeds, 52 for cold-frames, 53