98 TOMATO CULTURE 



I think improperly, as giant climbing, or Tree tomato. 

 The Buckeye State is a good type of these sorts. 

 (Fig. 31-) 

 Other varieties make a stout and vigorous but 



FIG. 31 — BUCKEYE STATE, SHOWING LONG NODES AND DISTANCE 

 BETWEEN FRUIT CLUSTERS 



shorter growth, with more and heavier branches, 

 shorter nodes and many small medium-sized clusters 

 of fruit well distributed over the plant and which 

 mature through a fairly long season. These sorts are 

 usually very productive and our most popular varie- 

 ties generally belong to this type, of which the Stone 

 (Fig. 32) is a good representative of the more com- 

 pact and the Beauty of the more open growing. 



Other varieties form many short, weak, sprawling 



