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Title: Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato

Author: William Warner Tracy

Release Date: February 6, 2009 [EBook #28011]

Language: English

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TOMATO CULTURE

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE TOMATO, ITS HISTORY,
CHARACTERISTICS, PLANTING, FERTILIZATION,
CULTIVATION IN FIELD, GARDEN, AND GREENHOUSE,
HARVESTING, PACKING, STORING, MARKETING, INSECT
ENEMIES AND DISEASES, WITH METHODS OF CONTROL AND
REMEDIES, ETC., ETC.

By

WILL W. TRACY

_Bureau of Plant Industry,
United States Department of Agriculture_

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK

ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

1907

To

Dr. F. M. Hexamer

IN HONOR OF HIS LIFELONG EFFORTS FOR THE
BETTERMENT OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL
PRACTICE

Copyright, 1907, by
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY
_All rights reserved_

[Illustration: WHERE NEW VARIETIES OF TOMATOES ARE DEVELOPED AND TESTED
(By courtesy _American Agriculturist_. Photo by Prof. W. G. Johnson)]

PREFACE

This little book has been written in fulfilment of a promise made many
years ago. Again and again I have undertaken the work, only to lay it
aside because I felt the need of greater experience and wider knowledge.
I do not now feel that this deficiency has been by any means fully
supplied, but in some directions it has been removed through the
kindness of Dr. F. H. Chittenden of the Bureau of Entomology, who wrote
the chapter on insect enemies, and of W. A. Orton of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, who wrote the chap