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ite, and is canned and otherwise preserved in 

 enormous amounts. The varieties are numerous, but 

 the types which were the ruling forms in 1870 are 

 now practically unknown. The species has taken an 

 enormous reach forward, and the mold into which 

 the modern evolution has been run is that of the 

 Trophy. 



The above account of the Trophy tomato was 

 submitted to Colonel Waring, early in 1896, and he 

 makes the following additions to the history : 



The Trophy tomato is a product of crossing and 

 careful cultivation by Dr. Hand, of Baltimore county, 

 Md., who began his work in connection with it about 

 1850. He crossed the small smooth 'Love Apple,' 

 which was filled with juice and seeds, with the com- 

 pound, convoluted tomato of that period. This 

 latter was practically four or five separate fruits 

 packed together in one, with the skin running far 

 into the convolutions. He succeeded in putting the 

 solid mass of this compound growth into the smooth 

 skin of the Love Apple, and then, by careful selection, 

 year after year, increased its size and the solidity of 

 its contents until it became a mass of fiesh inter- 

 spersed with small seed cells. The tomato so formed 

 had reached a stable character long before it was 

 brought to my notice by Dr. Hand's son, T. J. 

 Hand, Esq., of New York, who was, at that time, 

 associated with me in the American Jersey Cattle 

 Club. 



"Early in the seventies, Mr. Hand placed a small 

 package of selected seeds in my hands. I sold them 

 in packets of twenty seeds each for five dollars per 



