IV.] OLD-TIME AND NEW -TIME TOMATOES. 



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accepted authority upon the genus Lycopersicum, ad- 

 mits ten unqualified species into his account in Dp 

 Candolle's Prodromus. Two of these, L. pyriforme 

 and L. cerasifornie, are generally regarded as mere 



B. Spray of new-time tomato. 



forms of the common garden species, L. esculentum, both 

 because they are very like the common tomato in botan- 

 ical characters, and because we know, as a matter of 

 history and experiment, that all three of these reputed 

 species are modifications of one type. Omitting these 

 two species, then, there remain eight to which we 



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