340 Agkicultctbal Experiment Station, Ithaoa, N. Y. 



RECENT VARIETIES OF TOMATOES. 



The year 1893 was prolific in new tomatoes. It is impossible to make 

 an extended report upon the tomato experiments of the year at this 

 time, but the following brief running notes of the newer varieties may 

 be of value: 



Aristocrat Dwarf (Livingston). Habit of Dwarf Champion. Fruits 

 red, small but very even and uniform and round, solid and attractive. 

 Apparently a valuable amateur variety. 



Baltimore Prize Taker (Landreth). A purple tomato of medium 

 size, round and smooth. Attractive, but seemed to possess no superior 

 merits. 



Buckeye State (Livingston). A very large and productive round, 

 heavy, purple smooth tomato. Seems to be the best novelty of the 

 year on our grounds, and apparently worthy of general use. 



Comrade (Gregory). A small and round early tomato, red, like 

 Prelude in shape, valuable for its earliness, although here it did not 

 equal Advance in this respect. 



Early Michigan, or Early Red A2:>ple (Ferry). Red, of medium 

 size, round and regular. A good, handsome variety, but scarcely large 

 enough to compete with other tomatoes in the general crop. It was 

 not very early here. 



Earliest of all (Salzer). A red, angled tomato of medium size, with 

 a tendency to be flattened. It was not early here, and it seemed to 

 have no striking qualities. 



Extra Early Advance (Burpe). Our earliest tomato this year. A 

 small red tomato of uniform size and shape, not very far removed from 

 the Cherry type. Valuable onl}' on account of its earliness. 



Gold Ball (Livingston). Much like the old White Apple, except a 

 little longer and of a bright lemon color. Early. 



Hubbard^ s Early (Jerrard). A cui-led-leaved variet}' of the old 

 angular type, red, appearing to be identical with the old Hubbard's 

 Curled Leaf. 



La Crosse Seedling (Salzer). Mixed, part of the plants like Dwarf 

 Champion, and others slender growers with red angular fruits. Of no 

 value with us. 



Lemon Blush (Thorburn). Fruit of medium size, bright lemon 

 with a faint blush, early. A good variety, and apparently worth 

 general dissemination. 



LoyarCs Giant (Everitt). An irregular, very late tomato, of no value 

 here. 



