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May's Favorite (R. D. Hawley & Co., Hartford, Conn.). A medium 

 red tomato, uniform, regular and good, ^eems promising. 



Salzer's First Prize (Salzer). A flattish red variety of medium size, 

 and apparently valuable for home use. 



Salzer's Giant Tree (Salzer). Much mixed^ Most of the plants 

 bore a smallish red tomato with no pronounced attributes. 



Salzer's Morning Star (Salzer). We could not distinguish it from 

 Mikado. 



Salzer's New Pot (Salzer). Mixed. Mostly like Dwarf Champion. 



Seinperfructifera (Pitcher and Manda). A red tomato of the Plum 

 type, but somewhat angular or cornered in form. It was not early 

 with us. One plant bore a large round fruit and was evidently a 

 "rogue." Valuable only for domestic use. 



Shenandoah (May). Large red flattish tomato of uniform size and 

 regular. Very promising. 



Storm King (Buckbee). Seems to be indistinguishable from small 

 forms of the old White Apple. 



Ten Ton (Landreth). Fruits medium to small, red, apparently not 

 valuable here. 



Terra Gotta (Thorburn). A medium to large buff- red regular 

 tomato, of novel color. Interesting, and apparently valuable. 



Topound (Huntingdon). Very much like Shenandoah. Good. 



World's Fair (L. H. Reed, Grand Rapids, Wis.). A red flattish 

 tomato with small foliage and evidently an offshoot of the old angular 

 or cornered type of tomatoes. It seems to have no particular merits 

 here. 



TOMATO-POTATO GRAFTS. 



Frequent statements go the rounds of the press describing some 

 mysterious or extravagant results which have been obtained by inter- 

 graftiBg tomatoes and potatoes; and one correspondent has reached 

 the point of naming his mongrel the "Potomato," and from it he 

 expects to reap compound crops of tomatoes and potatoes. The truth 

 is that the grafting of the tomato on the potato, and vice versa, is no 

 new thing; and it is equally well known that no economic results come 

 from the union. Yet the subject is an interesting one to those who are 

 curious concerning the habits of plants, and it is true that potato 

 tubers will grow without potato tops and tomato fruits will ripen with- 

 out tomato roots. In order to set the matter right, it has seemed best 



