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other forms. Colonel Waring' s original account of 

 the history and merits of the Trophy are here re- 

 produced : 



"The Trophy tomato was, until last year, unknown 

 in the seed market. My attention was called to it bj' 

 a friend, whose father, an amateur horticulturist, com- 

 menced, twenty -four years ago, the series of experi- 

 ments by which he has brought it to its present 

 superb condition. His first step was to cross the old 

 crumpled, large red tomato (which was very heavy, 

 but so rough as to be worthless) with the watery 

 Early Smooth Red. This crossing was continued for 

 several years, until he succeeded in putting the con- 

 voluted flesh of the one inside of the smooth skin of 

 the other. In accomplishing this, he adhered as 

 closely to a fixed line of action, and worked as scien- 

 tifically for the attainment of a predetermined end, 

 as did the originators of the famous Short -horn 

 breed of cattle. The end once accomplished, he has, 

 during nearly twenty years, constantly selected a 

 very few specimens of the best and best -flavored of 

 the earliest fruit for the next year's seed ; and now, 

 when properly treated, the seed will, with certainty, 

 reproduce the perfect type — a tomato that has never 

 yet been even remotely approached for excellence. 

 Without wishing to detract from the fame of the 

 popularly favorite tomatoes, all of which I have 

 faithfully cultivated, I have no hesitation in saying 

 that the Trophy is as far superior to the best of 

 them as a herd of Short -horn cattle is superior to 

 the chance stock of an average farm. 



"It is the very earliest, and it is unquestionably 

 the largest, the smoothest, the most fleshy (and con- 



