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last, 2 inches long by 1| inches broad 

 at the top, variable in shape, but 

 usually obscurely pear shaped, very 

 firm, red. Fig. 3. Figured and 

 described in Burr's Vegetables of 

 America, 634. — Burpee, Prussia. 



7. Red Plum. {Pear of Henderson and 



others, and the Pear-shajjed of our 

 last report.) Fruit 1-^ to 2 inches 

 long, scarcely pear-shaped, tending 

 rather towards the shape of an oblong 

 plum, bright red. This fruit should 

 never pass as a pear tomato. — College 

 from Henderson. 



8. Yelloto Phim, Like the last except 

 in color. — College from Henderson. 



Fig. 3. 



'0. VuLGARE. — Common market tomatoes. Plant as in sections A and B> 

 except usually more vigorous, the foliage coarser; fruit commonly 

 as broad as long or broader, usually more than two celled. Many of the 

 varieties of this section are direct developments from the Cherry and 

 Plum varieties, and in some cases are scarcely distinguishable from them 

 except in size. It is thought best, however, to keep sections Cerasiforme 

 and Pyriforme apart from this, as they represent the nearest approach 

 to the original wild tomato. 



Group 1. The Oblong Tomatoes. Fruit usually as long or longer than 

 broad, the walls very thick and firm, the placentae usually not nieet- 

 ing the inside of the wall, causing the fruit to feel as if hollow. 



9. Ki?ig Humbert. Fruit two and a half to three inches deep, by 

 an inch or inch and a half broad, fig-shaped, regular, or nearly 

 so; bright red, not ripening simultaneously on the stem end, 

 two or three celled, scarcely acid. A short remove from the 

 Fig tomato. One of the best tomatoes for pickles and preserves. 

 A European variety, introduced by the Rural New Yorker, and 

 figured in that journal Nov. 8, 1884. In its small and regular 

 forms it is very much like the Fig. The Trentham Fillbasket, 

 from England, was mixed, some of the plants bearing fruits like 

 the King Humbert. I am not informed as to which plants the 

 name should apply. — College from Rawson, England, France, 

 (fruits smaller) Prussia. (The seeds from Prussia were grown in 

 France. ) 



10. Criterion. (VicJc's Criterion.) Average fruits two to two and 

 a half inches deep, and two inches broad, obscurely angled, 

 more or less squared at the ends, pink-purple, commonly, two 

 or three celled. Occasionally, by the interposition of adventi- 

 tious cells, the fruit broadens, becoming three times broader 

 than deep. Such fruits, growing on the same plant with those 

 which are almost pear-shaped, illustrate the process through 

 which our garden tomatoes have been developed from the wild 

 type. — College from Gregory and Henderson, England. 



