Free Tomato Books 1800's - 1920's (PDFs)
 

Not only tomatoes books but books on farm tools, farming, school books for farming (yep they taught that in the schools) and more:D


Forcing tomatoes (1902)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/forcingtomatoes00beal[/URL]

Tomatoes and how to grow them .. ([191-?])
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924085711459[/URL]

Fertilizer experiments with greenhouse lettuce and tomatoes (1927)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/fertilizerexperim00lloy[/URL]

Fruits and vegetables under glass; apples, apricots, cherries, figs, grapes, melons, peaches and nectarines, pears, pineapples, plums, strawberries; asparagus, beans, beets, carrots, chicory, cauliflowers, cucumbers, lettuce, mushrooms, radishes, rhubarb, sea kale, tomatoes (1912)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/fruitsvegetables00turn[/URL]

Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and greenhouse, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc (1919)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/tomatoculturepra00tracuoft[/URL]


Livingston and the tomato : being the history of experiences in discovering the choice varieties introduced by him, with practical instructions for growers (1893)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/livingstontomato00livi[/URL]

Vegetation and reproduction with special reference to the tomato .. (1918)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/vegetationreprod00krau[/URL]

Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the growing and cultivation of the tomato (1913)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/tomatoculturepra00vanc[/URL]

Tomato culture; a practical treatise on the tomato, its history, characteristics, planting, fertilization, cultivation in field, garden, and green house, harvesting, packing, storing, marketing, insect enemies and diseases, with methods of control and remedies, etc., etc (1907)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/tomatoculturepra00traciala[/URL]

The tomato: with cultural directions for maintaining a continuous supply of fruit, including also special instructions for amateurs, growers of fruits for markets, and exhibitors, a chapter on diseases and insect pests, and their prevention, and a list of sixty good and useful recipes for the guidance of cooks (1889)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924003392283[/URL]

The art of cookery made easy and refined: comprising ample directions for preparing every article requisite for furnishing the tables of the nobleman, gentleman, and tradesman (1802)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/artofcookerymade00moll2[/URL]

[B]The book of a thousand gardens; (1912)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/bookofthousandga00fiel[/url]

What an interesting read this a.m.

and for those that don't have the time, zoom in and check out "Some Big Tomatoes"

[URL]http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofthousandga00fiel#page/20/mode/2up[/URL]

"A little rough but good" :surprised::surprised::surprised:

ROFL! I WANT to grow THOSE Maters! OMG! :)):love::lol:

I typed in [B]American bee journal[/B] and found about 70 issues in pdf, etc

Not a tomato book but it looks very interesting

[B]The American orchardist : or, A practical treatise on the culture and management of apple and other fruit trees, with observations on the diseases to which they are liable, and their remedies : to which is added the most approved method of manufacturing and preserving cider, and also wine from apple juice and currants : adapted to the use of American farmers, and all lovers and cultivators of fine fruit (1825)[/B]

[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/americaorchardist00thacrich[/URL]

[B]Unfermented apple juice (1908)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/unfermentedapple00gorerich[/url]

I love the Book of a Thousand Gardens! There's even someone in there from my town!

[URL]http://www.archive.org/stream/bookofthousandga00fiel#page/12/mode/2up/search/danbury[/URL]

Thanks for posting it PNW_D and John3 too!

Cool, thanks, lots of reading there, good for a rainy day.

not tomatoes - I found this
Illustrated descriptive catalogue of grape vines, small fruit, and seed potatoes, cultivated and for sale at the Bushberg vineyards and orchards, Jefferson County, Mo., with brief directions for planting and cultivating (1869)
here
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/illustrateddescr02bush[/URL]

and this on on roses
The rose, historical and descriptive; gathered from various sources (1879)
[URL]http://www.archive.org/details/rosehistoricalde00shaw[/URL]

It's a cool place to search around at

Those books are a fascinating read. When they talk about the work involved it makes me feel very, very lazy.

I was reading in the Henry Field book and one of the gardeners mentioned Paris Green. She used it on her cucumbers, beans, etc "about 8 pounds worth". It sounded familiar so I looked it up on the internet. Apparently it was used widely by artists and still is to some extent. It also kills, well, lots of things, including pretty much anything that eats it. Most arsenic compounds do that!

[QUOTE=stormymater;161700]"A little rough but good" :surprised::surprised::surprised:

ROFL! I WANT to grow THOSE Maters! OMG! :)):love::lol:[/QUOTE]

So what variety were those things?:surprised:

[QUOTE=semi_lucid;235898]So what variety were those things?:surprised:[/QUOTE]

In the 1919 book, Golden Trophy were listed as "a large rough variety". It doesn't say how good they were.

The article "Some Big Tomatoes" doesn't tell what kind they were. I believe I'll go with the normal and good, if given the option.

Tomato culture for amateurs. A guide to its successful cultivation under glass and in
 

[B]Tomato culture for amateurs. A guide to its successful cultivation under glass and in the open air (1905)[/B]



[url]http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924003377466[/url]


:)

[B]The manufacture of tomato products, including whole tomato pulp or puree, tomato catsup, chili sauce, tomato soup, trimming pulp (1919)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/manufactureoftom00hier[/url]
:)

[B]Tomato raising in common gardens (1870)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/tomatoraisinginc00tayl[/url]

[B]Fertilizer experiments with tomatoes (1913)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/fertilizerexperi142dacy[/url]




[B]Tomato notes (1908)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/tomatonotes117muns[/url]




[B]The process of ripening in the tomato, considered especially from the commercial standpoint (1920)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/processofripenin00sand[/url]




[B]Fruits and vegetables under glass; apples, apricots, cherries, figs, grapes, melons, peaches and nectarines, pears, pineapples, plums, strawberries; asparagus, beans, beets, carrots, chicory, cauliflowers, cucumbers, lettuce, mushrooms, radishes, rhubarb, sea kale, tomatoes (1912)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/fruitsvegetables00turn[/url]




[B]Tomatoes and how to grow them .. ([191-?])[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924085711459[/url]




[B]On the growing and marketing of tomatoes (1897)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/ongrowmarktoma[/url]




[B]Growing tomatoes for early market (1910)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/growingtomatoesf00lloy[/url]






[B]Fertilizer experiments with greenhouse tomatoes (1937)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/fertilizerexperim00lloyd[/url]


:)

[QUOTE=John3;161707]I typed in [B]American bee journal[/B] and found about 70 issues in pdf, etc[/QUOTE]

Thanks especially for these! I'm going to share that link on my blog for my fellow beekeepers. :)

[QUOTE=owiebrain;262092]Thanks especially for these! I'm going to share that link on my blog for my fellow beekeepers. :)[/QUOTE]
owiebrain here's one you might like
[B][SIZE=2]A thousand answers to beekeeping questions (1917) by Charles C. Miller
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[URL="http://www.archive.org/details/thousandanswerst00mill"][SIZE=2]http://www.archive.org/details/thousandanswerst00mill[/SIZE][/URL]
and
[B]The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary (1884)[/B]

[url]http://www.archive.org/details/abcofbeeculturec00root[/url]

Thanks! Good grief, I may never leave the house again. Well, except to the garden, of course. :lol:

Thanks a lot. I'm on archive.org every week listening to The Grateful Dead and never even thought to look up gardening books. Gotta check out the one on Livingston.

Glenn

A fantastic library about tomatoes!!! Thanks all