eriment station 86

27. Tomatoes in greenhouse at the Ohio
experiment station 87

28. Forcing tomatoes in greenhouse at New Hampshire
experiment station 88

29. Florida tomatoes properly wrapped for long
shipment 93

30. Greenhouse tomatoes packed for market 95

31. Buckeye State, showing long nodes and distance
between fruit clusters 98

32. Stone, and characteristic foliage 99

33. Atlantic Prize, and its normal foliage 101

34. Dwarf Champion 103

35. A cutworm and parent moth 124

36. Flea-beetle 125

37. Margined blister beetle 125

38. Tomato worm 126

39. Tomato stalk-borer 127

40. Characteristic work of the tomato fruit worm 128

41. Adult moth, or parent of tomato fruit worm 129

42. Proper way to make Bordeaux 137

43. Point-rot disease of the tomato 140

TOMATO CULTURE

CHAPTER I

Botany of the Tomato

=The common tomato= of our gardens belongs to the natural order
_Solanaceae_ and the genus _Lycopersicum_. The name from _lykos_, a
wolf, and _persica_, a peach, is given it because of the supposed
aphrodisiacal qualities, and the beauty of the fruit. The genus
comprises a few species of South American annual or short-lived
perennial, herbaceous, rank-smelling plants in which the many branches
are spreading, procumbent, or feebly ascendent and commonly 2 to 6 feet
in length, though under some conditions, particularly in the South and
in California, they grow much longer. They are covered with resinous
viscid secretions and are round, soft, brittle and hairy, when young,
but become furrowed, angular, hard and almost woody with enlarged
joints, when old. The leaves are irregularly alternate, 5 to 15 inches
long, petioled, odd pinnate, with seven to nine short-stemmed leaflets,
often with much smaller and stemless ones between them. The larger
leaflets are sometimes entire, but more generally notched, cut, or even
divided, particularly at the base.

[Illustration: FIG. 2--TOMATO FLOWERS ENLARGED ABOUT 2-1/2 TIMES.
SECTION OF FLOWER SHOWN AT RIGHT (Draw