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                 TOMATO CULTURE


  A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE TOMATO, ITS HISTORY,
  CHARACTERISTICS, PLANTING, FERTILIZATION,
  CULTIVATION IN FIELD, GARDEN, AND GREENHOUSE,
  HARVESTING, PACKING, STORING, MARKETING, INSECT
  ENEMIES AND DISEASES, WITH METHODS OF CONTROL AND
  REMEDIES, ETC., ETC.


                     By

                WILL W. TRACY

            _Bureau of Plant Industry,
     United States Department of Agriculture_


               _ILLUSTRATED_


                  NEW YORK

             ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

                    1907


                     To

              Dr. F. M. Hexamer

    IN HONOR OF HIS LIFELONG EFFORTS FOR THE
      BETTERMENT OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL
                   PRACTICE


             Copyright, 1907, by
             ORANGE JUDD COMPANY
            _All rights reserved_

[Illustration: WHERE NEW VARIETIES OF TOMATOES ARE DEVELOPED AND TESTED
(By courtesy _American Agriculturist_. Photo by Prof. W. G. Johnson)]




PREFACE


This little book has been written in fulfilment of a promise made many
years ago. Again and again I have undertaken the work, only to lay it
aside because I felt the need of greater experience and wider knowledge.
I do not now feel that this deficiency has been by any means fully
supplied, but in some directions it has been removed through the
kindness of Dr.