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of a "Champion" and "Golden Sunrise," and "Yellow Prince," 

 which somewhat resembles it. 



The varieties grouped together as "small sorts" include a num- 

 ber of varieties, developments of the "pear," "plum." "peach" 

 and "cherry" tomatoes, as well as the "Currant," which is a 

 separate species. The characteristics of these are well shown 

 in the table of classification. None are of especial value from a 

 commercial standpoint. 



Eight varieties of tomatoes were received from the. Bureau of 

 Seed and Plant Introduction of the Department of Agriculture. 

 No. 3147 was a red sort, of the "plum" type, closely resembling 

 "King Humbert" (64). Nos. 3150 and 315 1 were similar to 

 this, but with yellow fruits. No. 3153 was of the common type, 

 early, but irregular, watery and full of seeds. No. 3158 was 

 a very small red tomato, intermiediate in form between the 

 "plum" and "pear" types. All of the above came from Italy. 

 No. 3623, from Smyrna, was an irregular red sort, and No. 

 4491, "Prince Bismark," from Italy, was a large, rough, yellow 

 "peach" tomato. No. 6091, from Russia, was the best of these, 

 being red in color, of good size, and fairly smooth, but in no 

 way superior to'many of our native sorts. 



A Second Crop of Tomatoes. 



Seeds from the following earliest varieties of tomatoes, 

 namely, "Arcadia," "Earliana," "Red Cherry" and "Red Pear," 

 were sown for a second crop, in the usual way, late in July, 

 and the olants afterwards set in the trial grounds. As with the 

 second crop of corn, the early frosts interfered with the growth 

 of these plants, but by giving them shelter during the coldest 

 nights fruit was obtained from all the varieties of practically full 

 size, and thereby seeds were secured for further use. At least 

 two weeks might have been gained at the beginning of the first 

 crop in early spring, and thus made it easy to have secured a 

 second crop from these and other quick-growing sorts in an 

 ordinary season without any guarding against the cold nights. 



