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The "Dwarf Stone-Dwarf Champion" Family. 



In this group are combined two of the superior members of the 

 dwarf class of tomatoes. The "Dwarf Stone" is a large, firm-fleshed, 

 red-fruited sort that led in points of excellence in our trials with 

 nearly two hundred competitors in 1904, while the "Dwarf Cham- 

 pion" has a much smaller fruit of a pink color. There is little to be 

 said of the five sets of plants that constituted the family. The plants 

 in all cases were dwarfs, as might be expected. The half-blood parent 

 did not differ materially from the reciprocal quarter and three-quarter 

 bloods. One point of interest was the apparent blending in the color, 

 it being in all cases a dull red, instead of in part red and in part pink. 

 The plants were all small, feeble and unproductive. The fruits that 

 came to maturity were of good shape. 



The " Ignotnm-Red Peach " Family. 



The "Ig-notum" (62) is a standard, fine-leaved variety of tomato 

 with red fruit, of medium size and earliness that gave with us a score 

 of 83 good points out of a possible 100, in 1904. Its origin is 

 unknown, it having made its appearance in the trial ground^ of the 

 Michigan Agricultural College twenty and more years ago, and has 

 been a popular variety for a long time. The "Red Peach" (178) is 

 a small, pink-fruited variety, the foliage of w'hich is of a bluish tinge, 

 and quite susceptible to drought and other unfavorable conditions. 

 In the greenhouse, for example, the peach "blood" can be detected as 

 well by the wilting, when water-supply is limited, as by every other 

 leaf or stem peculiarity. The fruit, aside from its small size and few 

 — usually three or four — large seed cavities, is characterized by a fuzz 

 upon the surface, from w'hich fact the name is given to this quite 

 distinct group. 



The second generation of the cross (62 x 180) gave vines of remark- 

 ably large size, all five with pink iruits, two of which bore the character- 

 istic peach fuzz. The fruit, in size, varied greatly, some vines bore small 

 tomatoes in large clusters, while others had smaller clusters with the 

 fruit large enough for market. The cross of the male parent upon the 

 cross 62 (62x178) produced medium-sized fruits, all red and none 

 with the fuzz, and as a whole inferior. The cross upon the male 



