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The most productive of the large smooth tomatoes was theR ed Mikado, which yielded 

 fifty-eight pounds of ripe fruit. 



No. 189. No. 8. — Vaughan. A good-size tomato of the Paragon class. Some of the 

 fruits were symmetrical but most of them were irregular, with a large scar and deep 

 depression at the apex. With better selection it might be a valuable late variety. 



No. 190. Prize Belle —Vaughan. A large, late tomato resembling Mayflower, regular 

 or slightly angular and even irregular. Too late for a season like the past 



No. 191. Red Apple — Ferry. A medium-size tomato resembling Perfection. Very 

 regular, nearly spherical with a shallow cavity. Average diameter three inches. Firm, 

 solid and of excellent quality. A well selected strain. 



No. 192. Red Mikado— Dveev. A variety of the grandifolium class, differing from 

 Mikado only in color. Specimens large, generally regular but sometimes greatlv distor- 

 ted. 



No. 193. Ringleader — Dreer. Fruits very large and irregular. Cavity deeply fur- 

 rowed, many of the ridges running around to the apex. Something like a large and very 

 irregular Trophy. Core very large. Quality poor. A worthless variety. 



No. 194. -S/irt/t— Henderson. A yellow form of Mikado. Some plants show a reversion 

 to that variety. Fruits often irregular, rather solid but coarse and of poor quality. 



No. 195. Turner's Hybrid — Maule. ($1,600 strain.) The same as Mikado. Fruits 

 rather more flattened and more irregular than Mikado from Everitt. They show an 

 increase in size but less care in selection. 



No. 196. Volunteer — Dreer. A fine variety of the Paragon group. Quite early and 

 productive. Fruits regular and of good size. A well selected strain. 



No. 197. Nichols'' Stone — Nichols &Shedd. A strain of the Paragon. Quite solid, with 

 thick cell walls. Fruit generally large, quite regular, but with an occasional distorted 

 fruit. Generally with scars and slight irregularities at the apex. A promising strain if 

 given earful selection. 



No. 198. Perfection — Livingston. Fruits of good size, averaging S^j^ ounces, uni- 

 formly regular, round, nearly spherical in form. Cell walls thick and firm. Seeds few. 

 Quality excellent. In size and productiveness it does not equal Mikado, Volunteer, and 

 others of the Paragon group, but its regularity in size and form, its solidity and high 

 quality make it a desirable variety for home use or for markets where an extra price can 

 be obtained for a perfect red tomato. 



No. 199. Haines' No. 64 — Northrop, Braslan, Goodwin Co. A large tomato of the 

 Cardinal class. Fruits light red, flattened, regular, with a ring at the apex, quite solid. 

 A good strain showing much better selection than the same variety (181) from Alneer. 



No. 2(X). Bay State — A. B. Howard. A well selected variety of the Paragon class, 

 approaching the Cardinal in color, which variety some of the fruits resemble in form. 

 Fruits large and generally regular with a slight angularity. Cell walls quite thick and 

 firm. Solid and of excellent quality. Our test this year indicates that it is a late variety 

 and somewhat lacking in productiveness. 



Summary: For early yarietie.s we need not look beyond the Earliest, 

 — Vaughan, and King of the Earlies — Ely. Prelude is too small. Fol- 

 lowing these are Advance and Hathaway' s Excelsior. Of large, smooth 

 red kinds there is little choice between Perfection, Paragon, Yolunteer, Bay 

 State, Haines' No. 64, Nichols' Stone, Matchless and a number of others. 



Ignotum is with us still the most solid, and largest smooth tomato. Out of 

 five hiindred plants only one sported. Red Mikado is a red and regular 

 form of Mikado. Of pink or purjDle varieties. Acme, Beauty, and Mikado. 

 Shah is a yellow variety of Mikado parentage. 



EFFECT OF USING SEED FROM FIRST RIPE FRUITS. 



In Bulletin 48 will be found a paragraph giving the results obtained 

 from planting seeds from the first fruits that ripened, as compared with the 

 yield from plants grown from seed saved from the main crop. The angu- 

 lar varieties produced at the first picking 26 9-16 pounds from the first 

 mentioned plants, and 6 11-16 pounds from the latter. The smooth or 

 apple shaped sorts gave respectively 8 3-16 pounds and 21 7-16 pounds 

 from the earlv and late saved seed. In one case there is an increase of 



