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mation of a bud, as it springs from a single point where a bud would 

 be, and often has quite a stem to it. A stunted, deformed leaf is also 

 sometimes found upon it, as given in the figure. 



The larva is orange-yellow, partly transparent, partly opaque, and 

 has the breast-bone clove-shaped as in the preceding (Fig. 44, a), and 

 doubtless leaves the gall and enters the ground to transform. First 

 ■described in Am. Entomologist (I, p. 107.) 



THE GRAPE-VINE TOMATO- GALL— F^^is tomatos. 



MADK BY Lasioptcra vitis o. s. 

 (Ord. DiPTEKA, Fam. Ckcidomyid.e.) 



The following clipping will show that this gall, which is quite com- 

 [Vig- 45.] mon in the summer months 



on the River Bank grape and 

 its cultivated varieties, has 

 not remained unnoticed by the 

 yVi'l curious, and that it has, like 

 ('^ .' J the others, its fruit resem- 

 i blances: 



Freak in a Vineyakd. — In 

 gathering grapes to-day we 

 \ found one of the clusters, in 

 / shape, 2^2jerfeGt tomato. It is 

 of quite large size, and on the 

 outside is divided into eight 

 segments or lobes, having a 

 seed to correspond with each 

 segment or lobe. It was 

 found on a cluster of one of 

 Rogers' Hybrids, and a pecu- 

 liarity is, that the grape is 

 hluc, while this is red. In 

 flesh and seeds and all else it 

 is a perfect grape. President 

 Wilder's Trophy tomato stands 

 about three rods from the vine. 

 I call upon President Wilder 

 to explain with what sort of 

 propagating qualities he has 

 invested his Trophy tomato, to 

 know, if we continue the cul- 

 tivation of that fruit, whether 

 our apples, plums, cherries, 

 etc., will or will not turn into 

 I have saved the eight seeds for a further solution 



/ 





Trophy tomatoes, 

 of the problem. 



