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A variable set of strong plants was produced in the ''Globe-Pon- 

 ilerosa" (194/103) cross and here the shapes of the fruits were 

 full of interest. Some were fiattish and rough like the "Pon- 

 derosa" parent, while others were -'apple-shaped." A longitudinal 

 section of one of the tomatoes, showing considerable length of 

 axis, is seen at 9 in Plate VIII. In this plate, the label is a 

 half-inch square and several examples of tomatoes with a long 

 polar axis are given, as follows: 1, ''Red Plum" (180) ; 2, ''Red 

 Pear" (179) ; 3, a cross between two long-fiiiited kinds from Italy 

 (3151/3047) ; 4, "Dwarf Stone" upon "Red Plum" (169/180) ; 

 5, "Ponderosa" upon ''Sumatra Fig" (103/181) ; 6, "King Hum- 

 bert" (64); 7, "King Humbert" upon "Fortune" (64/53); 8, 

 "'Magnerosa" (75/10^3), and 9, "Globe" upon "Ponderosa" 

 (194/103), mentioned above. 



"Red Carrant-Dwarf Champion'' (177154). 



The above cross is a very violent one because it is between two 

 species, the "Currant" and the common tyiDe of tomato, and, sec- 

 ondly, the former is a standard of a very fine-leaved group while 

 the latter is a dwarf. The blend resulting from the cross was 

 grown in the greenhouse and from seed of this the twenty plants 

 were raised, from which selections were made for the types showai 

 in Plate IX. The spray, shown at 1, might be mistaken for the 

 true "Currant," but upon close inspection, there are sufficient 

 evidences of the cross. At 2 the foliage is seen to be approaching 

 that of the ordinary standard fine-leaved type. Through 3 the 

 type changes somewhiat abru]3tly in 4, in which the stems are up- 

 right for a time and afterwards bend over clumsily because of the 

 great length of the stem' of these crosses. The leaves are, perhaps, 

 the most different from the ordinary "Currant" type, they being 

 short with the divisions broadened and strongly curled downward 

 and inward. The extreme type of the crosses is seen at 5, in which 

 the foliage of the mother plant is most nearly approached. These 

 plants, four out of the thirty, were nearly upright, comparatively 

 short-stemmed and may be classed as dwarfs although the axis of 

 the plant is longer than a dwarf of the common sorts of tomatoes. 



In fruit tlie variations were not great, all plants producing 

 clusters somewhat after the "Currant" type, but shorter, with the 



