Tomato Plants from Cuttings.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 252, 20 September 1884, Page 5 (Supplement)

Tomato Plants from Cuttings.

! Have any of out friends ever tried to raise (tomato plants from cuttings, and if so, with wj^at, repults?; Last fall we rooted a slip from a tomato vine' which had escaped the first frost of the season, and' at the same ■time we ' planted some seeds. The cutting Sa, now quite a large v plant, branched but and m fall blossom, promising fruit, whilst vlhe ... seedlings are atill small without signs of either branch or blossom. From this experiment we conclude 'thai, while all the numberless attempts during the last decade, tp produce earlier bearing varieties of as good qualities as some of our best popular sorts possess, have proved to be failures, or nearly so, we may still look m another direction for attaining the end so eagerly sought. Every florist knows that even small cuttings of house plants come to bloom just as if they were not, severed from the parent plant and put on their own resources. Every branch or Sucker 'of the tomato vine produces blossoms with the tendency to bear fruit. Is it not reasonable to expect that when turning such branch into an individual plant, this natural tendency is preserved, the same as it is m the case of the geranium slip ? The problem of pushing the fruiting season of this wholesome vegetable a week or two ahead, can, we have no doubt, be solved by the use of cuttings instead of seedlings. — Midland Farmer. ■

Fob the.horse that has lost its appetite, id hid»-&>uud> -and otherwise "oufrof sorts,"' nothing actsjbetfcer than bran mashes, which should be always. made with boiling water. TJMse^arp -laxative, afford some nutriment, aqd eerve to assist the action of purgativss. Mashes may also be made of oats, malt, linseed, barley, and other grains, after being bruised or ground. :

Good wheat, good stock, good butter, and good cheese should be encouraged by good premiums at the fairs.