TOMATO. 635 



Like most of the other varieties, the amount of product is 

 in a great degree dependent on soil, culture, and season. 

 Under favorable conditions, twenty-five pounds to a plant is 

 not an unusual yield. Single specimens of the fruit some- 

 times weigh four, and even five or six pounds. 



The Giant Tomato is not early, and, for the garden, per- 

 haps not superior to many other kinds ; but for field-culture, 

 for market, for making catchup in quantities, or for the use 

 of pickle-warehouses, it is recommended as one of the best 

 of all the sorts now cultivated. 



This variety, or more properly species, dif- Grape or 

 fers essentially in the character of its foliage, Tomato. 



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and manner of fructification, from the Garden 

 Tomato. The leaves are much smoother, thinner in texture, 

 and have little of the musky odor peculiar to the Common 

 Tomato-plant. The fruit is nearly globular, quite small, 

 about half an inch in diameter, of a bright scarlet color, and 

 produced in leafless, simple, or compound clusters, six or 

 eight inches in length, containing from twenty to sixty ber- 

 ries, or tomatoes ; the whole having an appearance not unlike 

 a large cluster of currants. 



The plants usually grow about three feet in height oi- 

 length, and, in cultivation, should be treated in all respects 

 like those of other varieties. The flowers are yellow, and 

 comparatively small. Early. 



Though quite ornamental, it is of little value in domestic 

 economy, on account of its diminutive size. 



In size and form this variety differs little Improved 

 from the common Apple Tomato. Its superi- Tomato, 



ority consists in its much greater solidity, in 

 the absence of the tough rind common to the old variety, and 

 in the less seedy and much more pulpy character of its flesh. 



