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No. 74. Autocrat — Sibley. A handsome smooth tomato, similar to Perfection. Nearly 

 spherical, solid and of good quality. A productive, well selected strain. 



No. 79. ScoviU's Hybrid—Perry. Much like Autocrat. Smooth, solid and fairly pro- 

 ductive. 



No. 93. Peach — Landreth. A small, spherical, pinkish tomato, resembling a peach in 

 shape and color. Rather soft but of a good quality and quite productive. As a tomato 

 for home use, especially for eating from the hand, it is worthy of a trial. 



No. 96. Jackson^s Favorite — Dickson. One of the best of the angular sorts. The 

 furrows are shallow and many of the fruits are as regular as Paragon. Fruits solid, the 

 best of them re.sembling Ignotum. An early and productive kind. 



No. 103. Acme — Gregory. Fruits uniformly smooth, even in size, slightly flattened, 

 skin tender and liable to crack. A good variety for home use. Color pinkish. 



No. 107. Beauty — Similar to Acme in appearance. Fruits nearer spherical and less 

 likely to crack. It averages rather smaller in size but is about equal to the latter in 

 yield and earliness. Valuable for market where pink varieties are called for. 



No. 128. Jauiie Grosse Lisse — Vilmorin. A large yellow variety, very smooth and solid. 

 Less productive than Yellow Victor, but preferable on account of its smoothness. 



No. 172. Dii'urf Champion — Henderson. A half dwarf variety with rough leaves and 

 short jointed stems. They can be planted much closer than other varieties, but even 

 then they will produce much less per acre than the Beauty and other standard sorts. 

 Color pink, of medium size, firm and generally regular. This is our second year's trial 

 of this variety and it has shown neither earliness nor productiveness. 



No. 175. Volunteer — Hallock. A regular variety of the Paragon class. Quite pro- 

 ductive, solid and of good quality. Valuable. 



No. 177. Potato Leaf — Mills. A smooth variety of the Mikado type. Fruits of medi- 

 um size, regular. Plants fairly productive. Color pinkish. 



No. 178. Early Jersey — Landreth. Rather uneven in size and shape. Many fcf the 

 fruits resemble a small, distorted Trophy. Medium early and fairly productive. With 

 selection it will make a desirable variety. 



No. 179. Golden Queen — Ferry. Similar to Golden Queen from Rawson, Yellow Jef- 

 ferson, Leonard, and Sunset from Tillinghast. A large, regular, light yellow tomato, 

 with sometimes a reddish tinge in the sun. Round and slightly flattened. One of the 

 best yellow varieties. 



No. 180. Golden Queen — Everitt. Was less regular than No. 179, evidently a less 

 carefully selected strain. 



No. 181. Haines'' No. 04 — Alneer. A new variety of the Cardinal class. Most of the 

 fruits were quite regular, slightly flattened, and with a slight ring at the apex. Many 

 fruits, however, are distorted and irregular. A poorly selected strain. Light red with 

 yellow spots. 



No. 182. Prelude — Rawson. Nearly spherical, two inches across by one inch deep. 

 Slightly angular, cavity shallow, four to five celled. Generally bright red, but some- 

 times pink. An early variety bat smaller and less regular than Advance. 



No. 183. King of the Earlies — Ely. Fruits of medium size, oblong, slightly ribbed 

 and corrugated, but not enough to be injured by it. 



No. 184. King of the Earlies — Everitt. Similar to the above except that the fruit • 

 was in some cases quite irregular. Evidently a poorly selected strain. 



No. 185. Lorillard — Henderson. Fruits 2^2 t<o 3 inches in diameter, dark red, with a 

 scar at apex, solid. This variety has been highly praised as a forcing tomato, but this 

 year's experience as a field tomato places it below many of the standard kinds. Much 

 like New Red Apple, and Perfection, but smaller and less productive than either. 

 Medium in time of ripening. 



No. 186. Matcliless — Burpee. A large tomato resembling Paragon in every way. 

 Generally regular, but occasionally slightly distorted with a large scar at the apex. 

 Heavy and solid. 



No. 187. Mikado — Everitt. Fruits large, generally quite regular, but sometimes 

 resembling Trophy in form, with a ring and depression at the apex. Purple. A well 

 selected strain. 



No. 188. No. 5 — Vaughan. (Now named E'r/rZi'esf o/^Z/). The earliest variety grown, 

 the first fruits ripening twelve days ahead of any other kind. Fruits of medium size, 

 flattened, somewhat angular, similar to King of the Earlies in size and shape. The plant, 

 however, is different and the fruits ripen much earlier. The King of the Earlies was the 

 next earliest variety and the first picking of this kind was made on the 2d of September, 

 consisting of eleven pounds. From the same number of plants of No. 5 we had obtained 

 sixty-nine pounds. On the 22d of September the vines were destroyed by frost. We 

 had at that time obtained one hundred and fifty-one pounds from the No. 5, the next 

 largest amount being obtained from Orangefield one hundred and seventeen pounds. 



