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Red Granite, from Salzer. is true to its name in color; size, medium; shape, oval, 

 flat at the blossom end, somewhat corrugated at the stem. The flesh is firm, solid, 

 thick and meaty. 



Rosalind, from Thorburn, is of bright rose red color, and one of the most promising 

 varieties. It is very productive, smooth at both ends, firm, solid, oval shape, thick and 

 meaty. The quality is desirable. The smoothness and color make it very attractive 

 and the quality is excellent. It showed up much better than it did last year. 



Ruby among the purple varieties, is what Beauty is in the red class. They are two 

 very desirable sorts. 



Shipper's Delight, from Salzer, is an attractive purple sort of good quality. It is 

 of medium size, smooth, firm, and meaty. Of much promise. 



Stone, bright red, oval, solid, firm, meaty, and productive. It is a standard red son. 



Stirling Castle, from Weeber & Don, is of the Conference type. It has a meaty shell, 

 but is pulpy, soft and productive, but of no especial value. 



Success, from Burpee, has vigorous vines, with coarse cut-leaved foliage. It is a very 

 productive variety. The fruit is large, oval, very thick, and meaty, has a slight indenta- 

 tion at the apex, and shallow corrugations about the stem. It is of a bright, glossy red 

 color, and the quality is excellent. One of the most desirable sorts. 



Trophy is one of the older choice kinds. It is a sure bearer, smooth, thick meated, 

 solid and of excellent flavor. 



Vaughan Earliest is a quick growing, productive variety, and has been largely grown 

 for an extra early, but there are many smoother varieties that are equal to it in quality 

 and far superior in appearance. 



Yellow Pear, Sumatra Fig, and Clusterosa appeared to be identical. They are a 

 small pear-shaped yellow tomato of very choice flavor and are used largely for pre- 

 serving, the quality being such that they' excel other varieties for this purpose. Other- 

 wise they have no value. Extremely productive and grow in clusters. 



Yellow Peach and Purple Peach, from Buckbee, are the same except in color. The 

 only striking characteristic of these varieties is their productiveness. The fruits are 

 soft and pulpy and have a dull color somewhat resembling a peach, hence their name. 

 They are a novelty of no especial value. 



Golden Glory, Lemon Blush and World's Fair are among the better yellow varieties. 

 They yield weil and the fruit is smooth and of good quality. 



There wers ninety varieties of tomatoes in the experimental plot this season and it 

 would be difficult to enumerate the best sorts, many of them being very desirable. 



As mentioned in the brief notes, some of the older kinds are well known, but there 

 are many newer sorts, which promise to be equal in every respect, and in some ways 

 superior. 



Beauty for a purple, Ruby, Stone or Trophy for red varieties have few superiors. 



For a succession of desirable kinds, one could select Earliana, Early Michigan, or for 

 extra large, though a little rough, Quicksure. 



For the main crop, Noble, Rosalind, and Success are productive and of good quality. 



Among the later varieties are those of the Ponderosa type. 



Some of the seeds used in the experiments were saved by the department, some received 

 from the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, but the bulk of them were 

 obtained from the following seedsmen: 



John A. Bruce & Co., Hamilton, Canada; H. W. Buckbee, Rockford, 111.; W. Atlee 

 Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y.; Currie Bros., 

 Milwaukee, Wis. ; Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. A. Everitt, Indianapolis, Ind. ; 

 D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich.; James J. H. Gregory & Son, Marblehead, Mass.: 

 Harry L. Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa.; Peter Henderson & Co., New York, N. Y.; Johnson 

 & Stokes, Philadelphia, Pa.; D. Landreth & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; The Livingston Seed 

 Company. Columbus, Ohio; Geo. W. Mace, Greenville, Ohio; Wm. Henry Maule, Phila- 

 delphia,' Pa.; F. B. Mills, Rose Hill, N. Y.; Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, Minn.: 

 W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass. ; John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. ; J. M. 

 Thorburn & Co., New York, N. Y. ; James Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. ; F. W. Wood & 

 Sons, Richmond, Va.; J. 0. Vaughan, Chicago, HI.; Weeber & Don, New York, N. Y. 



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