The Amateur's Kitchen Garden, Frame-Ground and Forcing Pit; A Handy Guide to the Formation and Management of the Kitchen Garden and the Cultivation of - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter xxv. the tomato, capsicum, and egg plant. "It is a most sharp sauce: And is not well served in to a sweet goose." Borneo and Juliet, ii., 4 the plants to be treated of in this chapter are closely related botanically, and require nearly the same course -y of cultivation to ensure a profitable production of their beautiful and useful fruits. They rank in importance in the order of their names, the tomato being, in its way, a princely fruit; but the egg plant, which stands last in the trio, is of much greater value as an esculent than is known to the world at large, for the delicious aubergine is of this tribe, and not the only one of the number that deserves to be valued for delicious eating. These plants are all tender in constitution, though our summers are usually warm enough for their full development if planted out at a suitable time. But to do full justice to them, they should be made the best of as pot plants, for they are, without exception, ornamental and interesting, and a certain select few are highly attractive and valuable for decorative purposes, notably so the larger kinds of capsicums. The Tomato, or Love Apple, Lycopersicon esculentum, has of late years passed from the rich man's garden, in which it was exclusively located, and has become a citizen of the world, the welcome guest of every household, and the subject of the poor man's special care. And no wonder, for like its cousin, the potato, it is so thoroughly useful and so accommodating in respect of the cultivation it requires, that it suits every garden and every table, and, strange to say, gratifies every taste, for it was never heard that, when fairly presented, this noble fruit displeased anyone. _ A Summer Ceop Of Tomatoes may