486 THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNLIKE. [XXX. 



package, and for several years after that for lower, 

 but still very high, prices. I offered a premium each 

 year of one hundred dollars for the largest and best 

 tomato grown from this seed that should be sent me. 

 If I remember rightly, the largest one that I received 

 weighed two pounds and five ounces. It was as 

 smooth as a pippin. I turned over the seed and good 

 will of the enterprise to Peter Henderson & Sons, 

 seed dealers of New York, and they made a specialty 

 of it for several years. 



By this time the seeds have become thoroughly 

 disseminated, and, while the Trophy tomato is, per- 

 haps, no longer widely known under its own name, it 

 was undoubtedly the progenitor of all of the fine fruit 

 now grown." (Compare page 393). 



III. 



The Probable Course of Evolution of the Tomato,^ 



The Cherry tomato is undoubtedly the original 

 tomato fi'om which have come all the varieties of 

 our garden, with the exception of the Currant, which 

 represents a distinct species. One of the first varia- 

 tions from the primitive type is the augmentation of 

 cells in the fruit, followed by a tendency to irregu- 

 larity in shape. Later, the flowers become monstrous 

 by the production of an abnormal number of parts. 

 The probable development of the leading sorts is 

 represented in the following diagram : 



I Extract from Bulletin 31, Michigan Agriciiltuxal College, pp. 5-6. (1887.) 



