78 



DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



Group 2. The Angular Tomatoes. Fruit medium or below in size^ 

 mostly very flat, plane on top, more or less cornered, the lobes most 

 conspicuous on the bottom and sides, red. This is the type of the 

 original Large Red, the first market tomato. The type is almost 

 lost in many of our later improvements, and it is now too inconstant, 

 perhaps, to be relied upon as a sectional character. In all charac- 

 ters used in distinguishing cultural varieties, however, one must rely 

 only upon the average of many observations. The old Large Eed was 

 mostly dropped from cultivation some fifteen or sixteen years ago. 

 We have grown it this year from English seeds. In 1818* tomatoes 

 in England averaged about twenty pounds of fruit to the plant, some 



Fig. 4. 



* Hort. Trans. Lond., III., 316. 



