Author: Joseph Harris Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-14

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780364584781

Excerpt from Harris' Rural Annual for 1902: Seeds From the Grower to the Sower In the case of plants like Tomatoes, which produce seed the first season, selection is made while the plants are growing. It 3. Tomato plant is seen to produce fruit of a type different from that desired, it is pulled up. Also when picking all rough and inferior fruits are discarded. If a plant is seen to produce especially fine fruit of uniform size and quality, the seed from a few of the fines; specimens is carefully saved and the next. Crop is raised from this seed. This method carried on for a number of years produces a strain with a pedigree and one that is Just as thoroughbred as any live stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.