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* Leaflets plane or nearly so; i. e., not conspicuously "curled." 



11. Orangefield. {Dwarf Or angefield. Orangejield Dwarf Prolific.) 

 Plant medium in size and growth : fruit small, scarcely angled, 

 nearly as long as broad (about one and a half inches deep in 

 ordinary specimens), yellowish-red, rather soft, of ten two-celled. 

 — Evidently a short remove from the Red Cherry, rather than 

 from the Large Red. Said to be of Euglish origin. Not desirable. 

 At the Chiswick (England) test it was found that in the Orange- 

 field ''the fruits are very large and corrugated or ribbed." That 

 variety was surely not ours. It was said to be identical with the 

 Large Red Italian. This year the fruits were much less angled 

 than last year, although the plants were grown from seeds of 

 the last year's fruit. There is an evident reversion to the 

 Cherry tomato. Suggests No. 30. — College from Sibley. 



12. Eiformige Dauer. A pretty variety, uniform in size and shape, 

 average speciaiens measuring nearly or quite two inches across, 

 conspicuously angled, often nearly square ; firm ; very bright 

 orange- red. Looks as the Orangefield did last year. (See No. 

 53.) — Prussia. 



13. Hundred Days. {Riindert Tagige.) Fruit two to three inches 

 across and usually less than an inch and a half deep, mostly 

 much angled, dark red. The Stamfordian from Dickson, Eng- 

 land, appeared to be the same. — College *from Thorburn, 

 Prussia. 



14. Cedar Hill. Much like the last, but averaging larger. — Prussia. 



15. Conqueror. Fruit large for this group (often four inches or 

 more broad), oblong, bright dark red and densely sprinkled, 

 especially below, with very small golden yellow dots. Said to 

 be a cross between the General Grant and the Keyes. Intro- 

 duced in 1874. The dense sprinkling of golden dots is not pres- 

 ent in most of the recent strains of this variety. With us this 

 year it showed most in fruits raised from English seeds, and 

 least on those raised from Prussian seeds. The stocks of this 

 variety are apparently much mixed. The fruit is variable and 

 irregular. It is valuable only for its earliness, and should now 

 be displaced by better sorts. — College from Henderson, Prussia, 

 England. 



16. Large Red. Fruit two to four inches across, very conspicu- 

 ously angled and cornered, tending to bend downwards at the 

 ends and become "ringed" on top. More cornered than 

 Conqueror and averaging larger. This is evidently the same as 

 the original Large Red. It is still a good tomato. — England. 



The Rouge grosse (*' Large Red") of Vilmorin is larger than 

 this, usually more sharply angled, and lighter colored, later. 

 It is much the same as Jackson, but is lighter and somewhat 

 firmer. It is a very fine strain. Franz gross rothe of Neumann 

 is evidently the same as the English Large Red above. 



17. Early Richmond. Scarcely distinguishable from Large Red, 

 except that it was somewhat earlier this year. — Landreth. 



