242 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



28. Criterion. (Vick's Criterion.) Average fruits, two to two 

 and a half inches deep, and two inches broad; obscurely 

 angled, more or less squared at the ends; pink-purple; com- 

 monly, two or three celled. Occasionally, by the interposi- 

 tion of adventitious cells, the fruit broadens, becoming three 

 times broader than deep. Such fruits, growing on the same 

 plaut with those which are almost pear-shaped, illustrate the 

 process through which our garden tomatoes have been devel- 

 oped from the wild type. 



29. King Humbert. Fruit two and a half to three inches deep,, 

 by an inch or inch and a half broad, fig-shaped; regular, or 

 nearly so; bright red; not ripening simultaneously on the 

 stem end; two or three celled; scarcely acid. A short remove 

 from the Pear-shaped tomato. Probably the best tomato 

 for pickles and preserves. A European variety, introduced 

 by the Kural Xew Yorker, and figured in that journal Nov. 

 8,' 1884. 



** Fruit yelloio or orange : 



30. Persict'i. In shape and size, like the Conqueror; color 



whitish yellow. 



31. Golden Queen- In shape and form, like the Paragon, or an 

 occasional fruit showing a tendency to become angular; color 

 bright yellow. 



32. Golden Trophy. (Yellow Victor.) Strongly resembling 

 Trophy in shape, but running a little saialler and often 

 becoming somewhat angular; color, inconstant, usually 

 bright yellow, often shading into orange or red. 



33. Improved Large Yellow. Fruit small, an inch or an inch 

 and a half in diameter, angled; in color, a rich dark orange;, 

 often but two celled. 



34. White Apjjle. (New White Apple. Nellis' Snowball.) 

 Fruit small and spherical, occasionally somewhat irregular, 

 an inch or inch and a half in diameter; nearly white in 

 color; not firm; often two-celled. 



35. Green Gage. (Large Yellow.) Differs from the last only in 

 its rich, yellow color. Nos. 33, 34 and 35 are small improve- 

 ments upon the Cherry tomato; occasionally a fruit becomes 

 irregular and contorted, an indication of the tendency of 

 domestication. 



h. Small berry-like sorts, i. e., Cherry tomatoes. Fruit two-celled. {Lycop- 

 ersicum cerasiforme Dunal.) 



36. Red Cherry. Fruit spherical, three-fourths inch in diame- 

 ter; deep, glossy red. Useful only for pickles, preserves or 

 ornament. 



37. Yellow Cherry. Differs from the last only in color. 



§ B. Grandifolium. — Large-leaved tomatoes. Habit and fruit as in section A; 

 leaves very large ; leaflets fewer than common (about two pairs), large 

 (the blade three to four inches long and an inch and a half wide), entire, 

 the lower side strongly decurrent. I^eaves of the young plants entire! The 

 terminal leaflet is often six inches long and four or more inches broad. 

 This peculiar foliage occurs in Nisbit's Victoria also. 



