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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9975, 12 November 1895, Page 6

The following is recommended as a good method of growing tomatoes on a somewhab extensive scale: —After ploughing the soil thoroughly and then harrowing in not) les* than halt a ton of some good fertiliser, check off the land 5 by 5 feet, and at each intersection of the furrows drive down a stouti stake 18 inches in the soil, leaving 3 feet above. Set three plants in a triangle 12 or 15 inches from the stake. Before the plants fall over, encircle them and the stake with a broad, strong band, drawing the plants in just ft little. If the band is placed about 15 inches from the ground, it will be sufficient to bold up the fruit from the ground; but if the vines grow ver; large a second band may bl put on laterone, however, is usually enough. _ Each hill should yield at the very lowest, if the land is good, a peck of tomatoes. At sby 5 feeb there will be 1742 stakes or hills, and with three plants to the hill ib will require 5226 plants per acre, If preferred, two plants maybe sat to the stake, and the hills reduced to a distance of 5 by 4 foot, using 1356 plants per acre. Where the wild winds blow you nty Still bkqljp Indira Uliief Cigwcttes,