Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . the stemelongates, which it will do very rapidly. In pruning the tomato we should allow the centralshoot of the young plant to grow, and remove all ofthe side shoots which spring from the axils of theleaves and sometimes even from the fruit clusters, asseen in Fig. 22. It is very desirable that this be donew^hen the branches
Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc . the stemelongates, which it will do very rapidly. In pruning the tomato we should allow the centralshoot of the young plant to grow, and remove all ofthe side shoots which spring from the axils of theleaves and sometimes even from the fruit clusters, asseen in Fig. 22. It is very desirable that this be donew^hen the branches are small, as there is then lessdanger of seriously disturbing the balance of the grow-ing forces of the plant, and also because there is lessdanger of careless workmen cutting off the main shootin place of a lateral, which would seriously check theripening of the fruit. It is especially important thatany shoots springing from the fruit cluster be removedas early as possible, hor these reasons it is importantthat, if the plants are to be pruned at all, the field begone over every few days. If the ])runing is not welldone it is a disadvantage rather than a help. Some growers allow two or three (Fig. 23) insteadof one shoot to grow, selecting for the second the most. < r. IS K < PH ^ c < .oo . So
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