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Trophy. Reed^s Island Beauty. Island Beauty.) The typical 

 Trophy is flattish, about four or five inches across by two and 

 a half deep, regular, or very nearly so, often producing a small, 

 regular ring on top, bright light red, with some shading of 

 orange red, firm. In this form it is a good tomato. It is 

 •exceedingly liable to grow too large and irregular, however. 

 The so-called selected stocks have shown no improvement over 

 the ordinary stocks. The Trophy is evidently not so good as 

 formerly. Our crop this year, from seeds of last year's crop, 

 showed a much greater per cent of poor fruits than the crop of 

 1886. Introduced in 1870 by Col. Geo. E. Waring, Newport, 

 K. I. — College from Henderson and Nellis, England, France, 

 (Trophy) ; College from Henderson and Thorburn (Island 

 Beauty). 

 Hackioood Park Prolific, from Dickson, Santa Catharina from Neu- 

 mann, and Blounts' Champion Cluster from Alneer Bros., Rock- 

 ford, 111 , were indistinguishable from Trophy. 



43. Bronze Foliage Trophii. Stems, veins on the under side of the 

 young leaves, and leaf-margins colored with indistinct, dark 

 violet-purple, and the leaves darker dull green than in other 

 plants; fruit similar to the last, later When the plants are 

 young, the "bronze" was very marked, and throughout the 

 season the darker color of the plants is noticeable at some dis- 

 tance. — College from Thorburn. 



44. Queen. {Cardinal. Ne^o Cardinal. Prize Belle. Livingston's 



Favorite. Market Champion. Champion. MilVs Belle.) 

 Fruit very uniform, seldom contorted, flattened, ordinary 

 specimens three to four inches across, and two inches deep, 

 slightly lobed, somewhat angled, glossy, yellowish red, firm and 

 handsome. Valuable. This is an extreme development of the 

 Angular tomatoes ; one of the most attractive varieties. Mamuth 

 trauhan from Neumann appeared to be inseparable from Queen. 

 — College from Nellis (Queen), College from Nellisand Hender- 

 son and Sibley, Thorburn, Root, Prussia, England (Cardinal), 

 College from Buist, Tillinghast (Belle), College from Sibley and 

 Henderson, England (Livingston's Favorite), College from Ford 

 and Son (Market Champion), Prussia (Champion), Prussia 

 (Mamuth Trauban), F. B. Mills, Thorn Hill, N. Y. (Mill's 

 Belle.) Glatte American, from Neumann, also appears to be 

 Queen. 



45. Red Valencia Cluster. Fruit somewhat more angular than No. 

 44, more uniform in size and ripening. Probably not distinct 

 from the last. A handsome sort. — College from Thorburn. 



46. Essex. {Essex Round Red Smooth. Not "Essex Hybrid," 

 for which see Acme.) Differs from the last, as it grew this year, 

 in its smaller size. Perhaps not distinct. — College from Gregory. 



47. Hathawag. {Hathaiuay^s Excelsior, New Red Apjjle.) Or- 

 dinary fruit nearly spherical, one and a half to two and a h^ 

 inches in diameter, perfectly regular, bright light red. A 

 favorite sort. The New York Station regards Livingston's 

 Favorite as the same as this. With us, however, the Favorite 

 retains too much of the angled type to be associated with Hath- 



