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

Seed breeding, 112
Essentials to success, 113
Growing and saving commercial seed, 115
Methods followed, 115
Prices received, 116
Yields obtained, 116
Importance of breeding from individual plants, 114
Importance of exact ideals, 113
Methods recommended, 113
Principles underlying, 112

Setting plants, 70
Conditions favorable and unfavorable, 70, 71
in field, 70
in greenhouse, 74
in home garden, 74
New Jersey method, 71
Other methods, 73

Soil
Composition, importance of, 24
Conditions essential, 41
Preparation, 41, 46
for greenhouse, 47
for home garden, 47

Soil Preparation,
for main crop, 46
Importance of, 46
Selection, 33
for early crop,