THE BAY STATE TOMATO 5 



Foliage 



Leaves typically 4-6 inches apart along the stem; under good cultural condi- 

 tions 17-20 inches long X 15-22 inches wide; upper surface usually dark green, 

 lower surface pale green. Largest leaflets numbering 7-9, coarsely and deeply 

 lobed and irregularly dentate; bladelets 4-6 X 2-3 inches. Medium leaflets 

 9-13, typically 2 J^ X 234 inches long, slightly lobed, and coarsely and irregularly 

 dentate. Small leaflets usually 8-10, entire, slightly dentate, 134-1 H inches long 

 and wide, ovate. Smallest leaflets 7-10, ovate, 3^ inch long and wide. Petiolules 

 from 3/16 inch long for smallest leaflets to 3 inches for largest leaflets. 



Flower Cluster 



Flower cluster racemose, simple or furcate, usually with 6-14 or more^flowers; 

 the greater number associated with the furcate racemose habit; developing and 

 maturing usually 4-7 fruits per cluster. Corclla lobes usually 6, and generally 

 3,'g inch long; calyx lobes or sepals usually 6 or 7, narrow, linear, usually 5/16 

 inch long. Connivent anthers usually ^g inch long, concealing the whole pistil. 



Peduncles often 12 inches long, racemose, simple or branched, spreading; dec- 

 linate, or vertical with the axis or stem in the late fruiting stage from an excessive 

 weight of fruit, and sometimes constricted near the stem therefrom; pedicels 

 1-1 J^ inches long, rarely up to 2 inches. 



Fruit Exterior 



Sepals 



Rather long, 1-13^ inches; 1^-3/16 inch wide at base, acuminate, frequently 6 

 or 7, rarely 8, equal and distinct, or 5 distinct and 1 furcate, or 6 distinct with 1 

 broader than the other 5; straight or slightly curved, erect or divergent, and en- 

 veloping the coarse, short pedicel which is about 3^ inch long. Sepals and pedicel 

 light bice green^ or of slightly darker or lighter shades. 



Immature Fruit 



Uniformly apple green, mineral green, callisle green, sometimes slightl}- darker 

 about the stem end. 



Mature Fruits 



Medium size, firm, weighing 13^-6 ounces, typically 33^-5 ounces each (first 

 grade) and running a high percentage to first grade; oblate or oblong in polar 

 section, round in transverse section, sometimes flattened or oblong when viewed 

 from the side, measuring typically 1\^-1Y^ inches transverse diameter, and IJ^- 

 ly^ inches polar diameter, the typical form established before fruit is half grown. 

 Cavity Y^T^i i"ch deep, broad, sloping gradually; side of cavity slightly lobed 

 with 3 or 4, rarely 5, somf times prominent creases radiating from the corky ring. 



Corky scar tissue (stem abscission layer) circular, shallow, concave; cork^' 

 ring not prominent, usually 3,-^-7/16 inch in diameter, stem adhering rather firm- 

 ly. Stylar end flattened, smooth, usually a slight depression or shallow basin 

 piesent about stylar scar in ripened fruit. Stylar scar small, 1/16-1/8 inch in 

 diameter, 3 o. 4 pointed, not too conspicuous or objectionable, often a mere dot. 

 Streaks radiating from the points of stylar scar but relatively inconspicuous in 

 mature fruit (dark green streaks boidered by pale green in green immature fruit). 

 Flavor mildly subacid 



Comparative susceptibility to circumferential and radial cracking not known 

 or observed. Fruit stems snapping off easily at the first node. Color scarlet to 



'Color Standards and Color Nomenclature; Ridgway. 



