The Garden Under Glass

TOMATOES IN THE GREENHOUSE 183 must not be dry at the time of top-dressing, but a good watering afterwards will settie down the new soil. A further top-dressing will be needed about six weeks afterwards. Feeding with liquid manure should not be undertaken immediately after top-dressing, but as the roots show a disposition to run joyously into the soil liquid stimulants may be resorted to. Other Items in Tomato Culture Tying and disbudding must be attended to regularly, and any fruit clusters which seem to be too heavy, or which are too near the soil, should be duly supported. Plenty of air should be given on all possible occasions, but not such as to produce a strong draught playing directly on to the foliage. Disfigured fruits and any which seem to be diseased must be cut off. Grown under these conditions, ripe fruit will be available towards the end of June, and although the plants may be cut out in October it should be possible to keep the fruit in a storeroom so as to maintain a supply until the end of November. Good varieties for amateurs would be Carters Sunrise and Holmes’ Supreme. These do not form extra large fruits, but the clusters often produce as many as thirty fruits of medium and useful size. As a rule amateurs who have a greenhouse cannot maintain much heat, so that the method shown above should pro ve eminently economical and satis facto ry. Tomatoes in a Frame Tomatoes may be grown in a frame with every prospect of success. At the lower end or front of the frame, box-work could be made for them by ninning a piank along