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ties of peculiar merit appeared. Amongst the first 

 great advances were the Apple and Tilden, both of 

 them precursors and premonitors of the modern race 

 of smooth and plane -leaved tomatoes. The latter was 

 introduced by Henrj- Tilden, Davenport, Iowa, about 

 1865. 



Into this awakening interest in tomato growing 

 came the Trophy in 1870. It was brought out by 

 Colonel George E. Waring, Jr., of Ogden Farm, 

 Newport, Rhode Island, whose fame as a scientific 

 farmer and an engineer was a guarantee of the 

 excellence of the variety. The reader will be glad 

 to know that this sponsor of the tomato is the same 

 man who has written "Book of the Farm," " Drain- 

 ing for Profit and Draining for Health," "A Farmer's 

 Vacation," "Elements of Agriculture" and various 

 publications upon sanitation, and who is now the 

 energetic Street Commissioner of New York City. It 

 will also astound the reader to know that the Trophy 

 was introduced for five dollars a packet of twenty 

 seeds ; and separate seeds were sold for twenty -five 

 cents each. Even this price was not prohibitive, for 

 Mr. Waring declared in 1871 that the seeds were 

 "very widely distributed over the whole country, and 

 the reports received from those who grew them make 

 it evident that henceforth the Trophy will be the only 

 tomato grown in America." Peter Henderson writes 

 of its introduction that "the universal interest taken 

 in this fruit and the confidence placed in Mr. War- 

 ing 's statements led to the sale of seeds to a large 

 amount to growers in all parts of the country." 



The time was ripe for a tomato of a new type, — 

 one which should be large and early and above all 



