SELECTING TOMATO SEED.
Do not save seeds from your early crop; (.ho bost results como from seed saved from a mid-season crop. Go carefully through your plants and choose the best plants with a good third and fourth truss, and then select the best fruit from those trasses after they get quite ripe. After picking tho fruit, allow it to stand until soft, and then scoop the pulp and seed into a bowl of water. Allow this to stand, giving it a stir round each day, until the seed sinks froe from tho pulp, when the water can bo poured off (with tho pulp). Another lot of water is added and stirred, • and when thia in poured off, the seed will be dram and can bo spread tm a Bhftet of glass and placod in tho sun to dry quickly. Roughly a dozen need. II care ia taken in selection, it is Pound o! tomntoea will give onn ounce of powiible to gnsatfy iuiiuov* the str»i ri of the variety chcwuw. L
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 16
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172SELECTING TOMATO SEED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19453, 8 October 1926, Page 16
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