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Fig, 11. 



60. French Upright or Tomate de Laye {Tree Tomato. Tomate a 



Tige Roide). Fruit very irregular on the sides and base, more 

 or less cornered, nearly as large as Trophy, flattened, bright 

 yellowish-red, very solid and very late. Used for pot culture in 

 France. A chance seedling in the garden of M. de Fleurieux, 

 raised by Grenier, his gardener, some thirty years ago, at Chat- 

 eau de Laye, near Villefranche, France. Fig. 11. — College 

 from Thorburn, France, Prussia. 



61. Station. Plant indistinguishable from the last; fruit much 



smaller (one and one-half to two and one-half inches in diame- 

 ter), uniform in size, nearly regular. A cross between the 

 French Upright and Alpha, reared at the N. Y. Experiment 

 Station. The Alpha was the male parent. Figured and described 

 in American Garden, December, 1886, 364. — N. Y. Experiment 

 Station. 



11. Notes o^ Peppers. — Thirty-five named sorts of peppers were grown 

 this year. The varieties made an attractive collection, especially as they 

 presented many various forms and colors of fruit and varied habits of growth. 

 In fact, the fruit of the pepper varies into almost every shape. From the 



T^OT-E.— Cincinnati Purple from D. M. Ferry & Co., was evidently untrue, as none of the plants- 

 produced pink or purple fruits. 



