IV.] 



THE TOMATO SPECIES. 



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shown in the outer 

 diagram. Some of 

 the older forms which 

 are still preserved to 

 us, are seen in G and 

 H. These are the 

 pear - tomatoes, 

 once known as a 

 species under 

 the name Lyco- 

 persicum pyri- 

 forme. Various 

 offshoots of this 

 type have given 

 large - fruited 

 tomatoes (as in 

 the Criterion), 

 but the type has 

 been much less pro- 

 ductive of improved 

 forms than the 

 cherry tomato has. 

 It is in the rotate - 

 formed or spherical - 

 fruit types that the 

 greater development 

 has been possible be - 

 cause of the greater 

 facility which they 

 possess for the 

 intercalation of in- 

 terior carpels, (See 

 the discussion of 



Lycoijersleum puberulum. 

 Chile. 



