FREDERICK J. PRITCHARD
1874-1931
Originator of tomato varieties of improved type and resistant to disease

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
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. PritchardFrontispiece
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
12. [Plants for the early crop]61
13. [Tin can prepared for sowing tomato seed]64
14. [Plants that have been crowded and overgrown]69
15. [Tomatoes pruned and trained with post, wire and twine]80
16. [Fine clusters on trained plants]81
17. [Resistance to fusarium wilt]87
18. [Diseases of the tomato]89
19. [Packing tomatoes on a farm]99
20. [A California packing house]101
21. [Puffiness is a common defect in tomatoes]102
22. [The lug box]104
23. [Lug boxes as loaded in car]105
24. [The square braid basket]106
25. [The Connecticut half bushel box]107
26. [Repacked tomatoes]108
27. [Cellulose film is used for repacked tomatoes]109