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(one and one-half to two inches in diameter), very regular and 

 uniform, indistinctly mottled with purple or red purple, the 

 surface roughish, often two-celled, the juice very dark colored. 

 A singular sort. — Landreth. 



56. Feejee. {Fcpjee Island. Lester's Perfected). Fruit large and 

 commonly irregular, often more or less contorted and bearing 

 the brown elognated or circular scar on the apex, very firm, 

 late. Not valuable. A notion was once current that this 

 tomato was introduced from the Feejee Islands. It is said by 

 White to have been brought into the vicinity of Athens, 

 Georgia, from Naples, Italy, as long ago as 1848. Probably the 

 first of the pink tomatoes. — College from Henderson, Prussia. 



57. Acme. {Rochester. Rochester Favorite. Livingston's Beauty. 



Climax. Hovey. Essex Hybrid). Variable in size, but ordi- 

 narily running about like the Paragon and differing from it 

 chiefly in color. Acme was introduced in 1877. One of the 

 best varieties in cultivation. — College from Henderson and 

 Gregory, England, France, Prussia (Acme), College from 

 Gregory and Sibley (Favorite), College from Rawson, Living- 

 ston (Livingston's Beauty), College from Rawson (Climax), 



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