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THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE. 



[IV. 



on the top and bottom and corrugated or ridged on the 

 sides. This angular tomato was apparently the only one 



known a century 

 ago, aside from 

 the little cherry 

 and pear tomatoes. 

 Martyn's Edition 

 of Miller's Dic- 

 tionary, in 1807, 

 describes the fruit 

 of the common 

 tomato as follows: 

 "The fruit in this 

 is very large [in 

 comparison with 

 the cherry tomato 

 and others], com- 

 pressed both at top and 

 bottom, and deeply fur- 

 rowed all over the sides, 

 red or yellow." Now 

 all this is changed, and 

 there is only an oc- 

 casional variety, or the 

 persistent cherry toma- 

 to, which recalls the old 

 type. At present, the 

 tomato plant is large 

 and widely spreading, 

 with scarcely an indi- 

 cation of the spire -like 

 growths of the young 



L. Currant tomato iu Herb. Kew. shootS which character- 



