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and yellowish about the stem. The remaining five 

 samples gave fruits of various kinds, although some- 

 what resembling the Grant type. Some of the sam- 

 ples gave two or three distinct types of fruit. One of 

 the samples bore only a few small and shapeless 

 fruits, which were entirely worthless. Some plants 

 bore small and nearly smooth fruits not unlike an 

 overgrown Cherry tomato. One lot gave fruits 

 superior to Grant. They were large and regular, 

 much like Volunteer, but flatter. The plants in this 

 sample were robust. This had undoubtedly been bred 

 away from the Grant by selecting for largest and 

 smoothest fruits. All the other samples were inferior 

 to Grant. It may be said that these variations were 

 due simply to mixing of the seeds during a number 

 of years by careless handling, but there is reason to 

 suppose that such is not the case. The Grant has 

 a peculiar small, slightly curled, light colored foliage 

 and a well marked upright habit of growth of the 

 young shoots. These characters appeared constantly 

 in all the samples. The foliage, being less variable 

 than the fruit and not an object of selection by the 

 horticulturist, had remained constant, while the fruit 

 had lost its characters. 



Canada Victor was grown from ten seedsmen. 

 There were none which could be recognized as true 

 Canada Victor, but they were all small, variable, 

 irregular, and practically worthless. Some plants bore 

 small and nearly globular fruits, much like large 

 Cherry tomatoes, and some were thick -walled, sug- 

 gesting the old Criterion. Yet in all the samples, 

 the peculiar slightly curled foliage of Canada Victor 

 was apparent. 



