Old Books

**Lee** · July 11, 2008

Here's a really cool site that I just recently found.
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/

It's a collection of Historical Agriculture Literature made
available by Cornell University.

One book in particular that I found intersting was Tomato Culture by William Warner Tracy (1907)
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/...a;idno=2916374

He discusses tomato culture practices that were used over 100 years ago!
Very interesting reading.... He talks about Ponderosa, Dwarf Champion, Honor Bright, and other varieties as well.

The link above let's you download the entire text for web viewing and even contains scans of every page in the book.

Really neat stuff.

I found this because I checked out a 100 year old copy of
the book from NCSU library. It's in pretty rough shape, so I
went looking to see if it was available on the web anywhere, and viola!

Enjoy,

Lee

July 11, 2008	#1
Lee Tomatopalooza™ Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NC-Zone 7 Posts: 2,188	Old Books Here's a really cool site that I just recently found. http://chla.library.cornell.edu/ It's a collection of Historical Agriculture Literature made available by Cornell University. One book in particular that I found intersting was Tomato Culture by William Warner Tracy (1907) http://chla.library.cornell.edu/cgi/...a;idno=2916374 He discusses tomato culture practices that were used over 100 years ago! Very interesting reading.... He talks about Ponderosa, Dwarf Champion, Honor Bright, and other varieties as well. The link above let's you download the entire text for web viewing and even contains scans of every page in the book. Really neat stuff. I found this because I checked out a 100 year old copy of the book from NCSU library. It's in pretty rough shape, so I went looking to see if it was available on the web anywhere, and viola! Enjoy, Lee __________________ Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad. Cuostralee - The best thing on sliced bread.