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Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agrictiltiire, writes: " we raised our first 

 tomatoes about 1832 as a curiosity, made no use of them though we had heard that the 

 French ate them. They were called love apples." The editor of the Maine Farmer ^ 

 1835, says tomatoes are cultivated in gardens in Maine, and are " a useful article of diet 

 and should be found on every man's table." The New York Farmer ^ of this year has 

 the statement of a correspondent that he had " planted a large quantity of tomatoes," 

 and a Professor Bennett ' in 1835, in a course of local lectures in the West, refers to the 

 tomato, or Jerusalem apple, as found in abundance in the markets of the West and recom- 

 mends their dietetic use. 



The ribbed tomato, with flattened and more or less ribbed fruit, is the kind first 

 introduced into European culture and is described in the Adversaria of 1570, as well as 

 by many succeeding authors, and the earlier figures indicate that it has changed but little 

 imder culture and was early known as now in red, golden, yellow, and white varieties. 

 A parti-colored fruit is mentioned by J. Bauhin, 1651, and the type of the bronze-leaved 

 is named by Blackwell, 1770. This ribbed type was probably the kind mentioned by 

 Jefferson * as cultivated in Virginia in 1 781, as it was the kind whose introduction into gen- 

 eral culture is noted from 1806 to about 1830, when their growing was becoming general. 



It has the following synonymy, gained from figures : 



I. 



Synonymy of the Ribbed Tomato. 



Poma amoris, an Glaucium. Diosc. Lob. Obs. 140. 1576. 



Poma amoris. Lyte's Dad. 440. 1578; Cam. Epit. 821. 1586; Ger. 275. 1597; 



Sweert. 2:20. 1654. 

 Poma aurea. Dalechamp 628. 1587. 

 Poma amoris, pomum aureum. Lob. /cow. 1:270. 1591. 

 Solanum pomiferum, fructu rotunda, molli. Matth. Op. 761. 1598. 

 Poma amoris Jructu luteo et rubro. Hort. Eyst. 1613; 1713. 

 Aurea mala. Dod. 458. 1616; 455. 1583. 

 Pomi d'oro. Dur. C. 372. 1617. 

 Poma amoris. Park. Par. 381. 1629. 

 Amoris pomum. Blackw. 133. 1750. 

 Mala aurea. Chabr. 525. 1677; Bauh., J. 3:620. 1650. 

 Solanum pomiferum. Mor. Hist. s. 13, t. i, f. 7. 1699. 

 Lycopersicon galeni. Morandi8:53. 1744. 

 Lycopersicon. Toum. 62. 17 19. 

 Common Large Red. Mawe 1778. 

 Morelle pomme d' amour. Descourt 6:95. 1827. 

 Tomate rouge grosse. Vilm. 555. 1883. 

 Large Red. Biur. 646. 1863. 



In form, these synonyms are substantially of one variety. The descriptions accom- 

 panjang and others of the same date mention all the colors now found. In 17 19, Tourne- 



Me. Farm. Oct. 16, 1835. 



' N. Y. Farm. Sept. 11, 1835. 



Bennett, Dr. Me. Farm. Aug. 21, 1835. 

 Jefferson Notes Va. 54. 1803. 



