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Atlantic. {Atlantic Prize. Johnson & Stokes). — One of the best early 

 varieties. Ripened earlier, and fruit was more regular than in 1889, though 

 not so large. Fruit large, red, firm. Productive. 



Bay State. (Bragg). — Earlier than last year. Of good size ; usually 

 smooth, slightly wrinkled at base. Firm and good ; cracks but little. A 

 worthy variety. 



Beauty. (Livingston). — The best of the pink tomatoes. A desirable sort 

 for either market or home use. 



Brandywine. (Johnson & Stokes, 1889). — Medium size, bright red, usu- 

 ally regular. Less inclined to crack than some other varieties. Rather 

 late. 



Chemin Market. (Vaughau). — Of medium size, deep red, somewhat 

 elongated. Resembles Hathaway (Hathazvafs Excelsior). Smooth, pro- 

 lific, uniform in size and shape. Good. 



Dwarf Champion. (Burpee). — Somewhat more satisfactory than in 1S89, 

 the fruit being larger and a little earlier. Very handsome, and valuable for 

 amateur culture, both in the field and under glass, but ripens too slowly for 

 market purposes. 



Favorite. (Livingston). — This is still superior to the new comers, and is 

 the second best tomato in our plantations this year. 



German Raisifi. (Childs). — Only the common currant tomato (Lycoper- 

 sicum pimpinellifolium). Seldom used, except for ornament or as a curi- 

 osity. 



Golden Fig. (Childs).— Small, golden yellow. Plant vigorous and very 

 productive. A short remove from Yellow Plum. Valuable for pickling. 



Golden Queen. (Livingston). — Undoubtedly the best yellow sort. Of 

 medium size ; usually even and regular in form. Productive and reason- 

 ably early. 



Ignotum. — This still retains its place at the head of all tomatoes which we 

 have ever grown. It was not quite so early as last year. 



Ithaca. Fig. 3. — Medium size, about 3 inches in diameter, nearly spheri- 

 cal, very smooth and remarkably uniform in size ; color, light cherry. A 

 new variety, very promising among table tomatoes ; apparently valuable for 

 forcing, in which capacity we shall test it during the winter. The history 

 of this promising variety is as follows : 



About twenty years ago, L. S. McWhorter, a retail grocer of Ithaca, was 

 attracted by a very fine specimen tomato, shown by an old English garden- 

 er, purchased the fruit, and the succeeding year planted the seed in his 

 private garden. The parent was the French pomme d y amour, or "Love 

 Apple." Some years after one plant appeared, which was a marked im- 

 provement. From this, Fred McWhorter, his son, has made careful selec- 



