— 124 — 



Haines. {Haines' No. (5/. Vaughan. Northrup, Braslan and Goodwin 

 Co.) — Fruits medium to larg^, firm, mid-season, but too irregular. Suggests 

 the type of the old I^arge Red. 



Ignotum. Plate I. — This variety, which originated with the writer, is a 

 sport from Eiformige Dauer, a German variety. It appeared in a very large 

 tomato test made in 18S7. It was sent to several parties the following year, 

 and a plantation of 500 plants was made by the writer. * Last year it showed 

 some tendency to revert, but careful selection has been practiced and 

 our plants this year, 422 in number, were all true to type, with 

 the exception of the variation due to culture, as discussed on page 

 116 of this bulletin. The Ignotum is without question by far the finest 

 market tomato which we have ever grown. Its particular points of 

 superiority are large size, regularity of shape, solidity, productiveness, and 

 uniformity throughout the season. It is the largest and heaviest of the per- 

 fectly regular tomatoes, and the most solid of any of the market sorts. The 

 pickings from our patches this year were usually fit for market as they 

 came from the vines; and the last picking, October loth, after a long sea- 

 son, was scarcely inferior to the best picking of the season. Plate I is made 

 from a photograph of an average cluster which weighed 3^4^ lbs. 



The following letters have been received from two well-known gardeners 

 to whom Ignotum was sent for trial : 



From John G. Gardner, Jobstown, N. J. — "I am very much pleased with 

 the IgnotUiu so far as my experience has gone. I had eighteen plants, and 

 planted them in a tonialo house, andthe\' did remarkably well under the cir- 

 cumstances. The season was geLting late to plant under glass and the soil 

 had grown a crop of tomatoes before, and only a small amount of manure 

 was added and forked up before the variety was planted. But under these 

 unfavorable conditions we gathered some fine, good-sized and well-formed 

 fruits, good in color, but a little soft, and when cut as good as any tomato I 

 have seen, and flavor grand. The softness I think is due to the soil. I 

 think enough of it, that I shall have young plants ready in ten days to plant 

 a 50 ft. hou.se for trial." 



From N. Hallock, Creedmoor, Long Island, who has made extensive to- 

 mato tests this season. — "I am greatly pleased with the Ignotum, and the 

 more I see of it the better I like it. I have twenty-three plants, and have 

 picked ten crates and have more to come. It was the second to have ripe 

 fruits {Station first), but at the end of ten days the quantity was greatly 

 ahead of the Station. The quality is A i ; solidity, ditto. It has picked 

 longer than almost any other variety. I have had no wrinkled ones." 



Jones. {Jones' Early Hybrid. Cornish). — This and Jones' XXX, also from 

 Cornish, appear to be the same. Fair size to rather large, regular, prolific. 

 A good variety, but possessing no points of superiority over several old va- 

 rieties. 



*For a fuller history of the variety, see American Cardefi, March, 1889, 

 84. 



