EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 18.1 



TOMATOES— 1901. 



Advance lias been one of the beat standard early sorts. It is productive and smooth, 

 but is rather small and soft. 



Beauty is one of the most desirable light purple varieties. It is smooth, thick meated, 

 compact, solid and of excellent flavor. The vines are strong growers and very productive, 

 the fruits usually being in clusters. It grows admirably under glass. 



Cream City, from Currie, is a vigorous, strong grower. The fruit is fairly smooth, 

 firm, solid meated, and has a desirable flavor. Jt is not quite as smooth as Beauty, 

 but is of about the same color and very productive. 



Crimson Kobe, from Salzer, is a smooth, crimson purple sort. The vines average over 

 four feet in length, and were well loaded with solid, meaty fruit of superior quality. 



Cumberland Bed, from Landreth, is very productive, but rather rough and irregular 

 to be attractive for fancy trade. The vines are of medium growth; fruit broad, flat, 

 rather thin, a little rough, but solid, and in some sections is largely used by canuers. 



Early Michigan, grown last year for the first time, has again proved to be a valuable 

 variety. The fruit is smooth, thick, meaty, of excellent Jlavor and of an attractive 

 bright red color. 



Earliana, from Gregory, is a bright purple, smooth, early sort of desirable quality 

 and productiveness. This for an extra early, followed by Michigan, makes an admirable 

 succession. 



Excelsion, from Maule, and Excelsior Purple (White's) seem to be identical. They are 

 productive and valuable varieties of excellent quality. 



Enormous, from Maule, is a very large, bright red variety. The vines are extremely 

 vigorous but lack productiveness. The fruit is large, thick, smooth at the apex, but 

 somewhat wrinkled about the stem. The quality is medium but they are not. as 

 desirable as some of the other sorfs. 



Great Mississippi, from Childs, is another very large crimson red variety. It is more 

 productive than Enormous, but is in texture and quality quite similar. 



Ilawley, from B. P. Hawley, Napoleon, Jackson Co., Mich., appears to be a selected 

 strain of Ponderosa. They are very large, light purple, fairly smooth, thick and mealy, 

 but not as productive as some of the smaller sorts. The quality is good for its class. 



Ignotum and Potato Leaved Ignotum are long tried standard varieties that need no 

 further praise. 



Long Island (Bedell's), from T. W. Wood & Sons, originated on the island after 

 which it is named. It is a valuable late sort, as it ripens evenly and is very free from 

 cracking. The color is bright red; flesh, solid and thick; surface smooth. The vines 

 are good growers and very productive. 



Money Maker, from Landreth, is a red variety; surface, rather rough; apex indented. 

 It is meaty, of medium flavor and is of some value as an early variety owing to its 

 productiveness, but there are other smoother sorts that are more attractive. 



Noble, from Burpee, is a bright red tomato of the type of Best of All. It is a vigorous 

 grower and very productive. The fruit is medium to large, smooth, oval, very thick 

 from stem to apex and meaty, but a little soft if not picked when first ripe. 



Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 arc novelties from The Livingston Seed Co., of no especial value. 

 They are all of the Honor Bright type, first turning yellow, then orange and finally 

 red or purple when fully ripened. 



Number 1 has foliage of the Potato Leaf type. The vines arc dwarf, but very pro- 

 ductive; fruit, flat, rough, rather soft and pulpy. 



Numbers 2 and 3 were nearly identical; foliage Potato Leaf type; fruit, medium 

 size, oval, smooth, firm and solid. 



Number 4 had cut leaf foliage. It was very productive; form, flat, rather wrinkled 

 and soft; turned to a yellowish purple color. 



Ponderosa (Hendersons), Ponderosa Improved and Ponderosa Early are all of the 

 same type. They are all very desirable large sorts, when well grown, but are some- 

 times slow to ripen and arc injured by frosts. 



Quieksurc, from Dreer, matured the earliest of any of the large, extra early sorts. 

 Not as productive as some, but the fruit is very large, a little rough, flat and meaty. Its 

 size and bright rod color make it very attractive as an extra early variety. The flavor 

 is good. 



