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late." ''Strong giwvers and well filled." " 'Magnerosa' is doing 

 finely ; have picked about five baskets from eighteen plants already 

 and more to come; size large as a Bartlett pear, shape more like 

 a ronnd ball; color i^ed as fire and it keeps well as far as I can see." 

 ^'Tho largest fruit weighs half a pound." ''They keep well after 

 being picked from vines," "I am much pleased to get so fine 

 a tomato." ''Vigor and productiveness of plants excellent." 

 "Quality of fruit is of the best ; we never had l)etter tomatoes." 

 "The 'Magnerosa' I am much pleased with." "Very str(>ng grow- 

 ing plants, well loaded with good-sized fruit." "My plants are 

 looking fine with fruit of good size, plants stocky, fruit well 

 formed and has plenty of it; promises to be an excellent fruit." 

 "The plants grew vigorously and on trellis reached over five feet 

 in height, producing bunches of fruit, or clusters of from four to 

 nine in a cluster and very plentifully." "Holds its good size to 

 the end of season." "Tomatoes smooth and perfectly shaped and 

 of fair size.'' "The tomatoes are fine, a good grower and good 

 bearer, flavor fine, fniit firm and of medium size." 



The "Marvelo8a"-("Marvel-Pondero8a"-TT/l03) -Station No. 5. 



Several rows of two crosses between the "Marvel" (77) and the 

 "Ponderosa" (103) have l>een grown during the season. The 

 "Marvel" is red-fruited so that, in the cross with the "Ponderosa," 

 a leading difference is in the color of the tomatoes. Another chai-- 

 acteristic of note is the shape of the fruit, which in the "Marvel" 

 is medium round and smooth and not over large. The "Marvel'' 

 is more nearly like the "Magnus" in form of fruit but differs from 

 it in the color, while the foliage is not unlike the "Ponderosa." 

 In short, in the cross under consideration, the unit character to 

 be considered is fruit color and not type- of foliage. The "Mag- 

 nerosa" has a lingering outcropping of coarse-leaved plants with 

 constant fruit color, wdiile the present cross has the leaf tyjx^ uni- 

 form with pink fruits appearing occasionally in the seleeted red 

 strain. 



The results of the "Marvel-Ponderosa" cross were so satisfac- 

 tory last season that seeds were selected and several rows of the 

 followino' combinations were gro-wn the present year : ( 1 ) 103/77 ; 

 (2) 103777//77; (3) 77/7103/77, and (4) io3/77//103. The 



