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| Keywords: The field and garden vegetables of America (Page 642) (6002649348).jpg 642 <br> MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES <br> light free access of air and in skilful hands may be made <br> quite ornamental <br> Or a trellis may be cheaply formed by setting common <br> stakes four feet in <br> length four feet <br> apart on a line with <br> the plants and nail- <br> ing laths or narrow- <br> strips of deal from <br> stake to stake nine <br> inches apart on the <br> stakes ; afterwards <br> attaching the plants <br> by means of bass <br> or other soft fibrous <br> material to the <br> trellis in the man- <br> ner of grape-vines <br> or other climbing <br> plants By either <br> T lis - ai infer - of these methods <br> the plants not only present a neater appearance but the <br> ripening of the fruit is facilitated and the crop much more <br> conveniently gathered when required for use <br> The French mode of raising tomatoes is as follows As <br> soon as a cluster of flowers is visible they top the stem down <br> to the cluster so that the flowers terminate the stem The <br> effect is that the sap is immediately impelled into the two <br> buds next below the cluster which soon push strongly and <br> produce another cluster of flowers each When these are <br> visible the branch to which they belong is also topped down <br> to their level ; and this is done five times successively By <br> this means the plants become stout dwarf bushes not above <br> eighteen inches high In order to prevent their falling over <br> sticks or strings are stretched horizontally along the rows so 29062980 92326 42073 Page 642 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062980 1863 10 5962/bhl title 42073 Burr Fearing Biodiversity Heritage Library The field and garden vegetables of America United States Varieties Vegetable gardening Vegetables Library Congress bhl page 29062980 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29062980 united states Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-08-02 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/6002649348 2015-09-10 21 03 39 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The field and garden vegetables of America Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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