The Garden [London] Volume 45 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...possible, as their vigour will now be on the wane. Administer farmyard liquid and artificial manure alternately. Remove all male blooms not wanted for fertilisation, also surplus fruits in their infancy, and keep tho foliage free from spider by syringing with tepid water into which a little liquid manure has been stirred. Thus treated, these old plants will keep up the supply for a week or two longer, after which they may be cast away and the house cleansed and used for other and more profitable purposes.--J. C. SUCCESSFUL TOMATO CULTURE. Last year's success with Tomatoes against walls and quite in the open will encourage their cultivation in this way. All that is wanted to make success certain is evidently enough a dry, hot summer. Given this, Tomatoes will grow almost anywhere, or at all events in all positions where the sunshine can reach the plants during the greater part of the day. Even selfsown plants resting on the ground cropped heavily, some of the fruit ripening before it was necessary to cut the rest to save it from frosts. There are not wanting signs of another hot and dry summer, and if such be experienced, then it will scarcely be possible to grow too many Tomatoes. Already inquiries have been made as to the possibility of working men and others not in a position to raise their own plants getting some for planting, paying for them if need be, and there will be a great demand for them in May and theearly partof June. Very much depends upon a good start being made, and it is not extra large plants that I find give the best results. Those early raised, or which, say, are already placed in 5-inch pots, will most probably be poor leggy things by the end of May, and such starvelings are so slow in recovering their vigour and...