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Lycopersicum fructu cerasi rubra. Toum. 150. 17 19. ' 



Lycopersicum frtictu cerasiluteo. Toiom. 150. 17 19. 



Solanum lycopersicum. Bryant 212. 1783. 



Cherry-fruited. Mawe 1778. 



Cherry. Mill. Diet. iSoj; Burr 649, 652. 1863. 



Morelle cerasiforme. Descourt. 5:279, 378. 1827. 



Lycopersicum cerasifolium. Noisette 1829. 



Cherry-shaped. Buist 1851. 



Tomate cerise. Vilm. 559. 1883. 



This type is probably the normal form of the tomato of the gardens to which the 

 other types given can be referred as varieties. It is qtiite variable in some respects, bear- 

 ing its fruit usually in clusters, occasionally in racemes. It is now but little grown and 

 only for use in preserves and pickles. 



IV. 

 The Pear Tomato. 



The pear tomato, which is to be classed as one of the fancy varieties under cultiva- 

 tion, occurs with both yellow, red, and pale yellow or whitish fruit. It was described 

 by Dunal in 1813, and in Persoon's Synopsis in 1805.' It is mentioned in England in 

 1 819, and both colors were mentioned in the United States by Salisbury,^ 1848. The 

 pear tomato is used for garnishing and pickling. The common names are, pear-shaped 

 and fig. 



L. hxunboldtii Dun. 



Brazil. This tomato is very like the preceding species, but the racemes of the flowers 

 are smaller, the calyx segments never being the length of the corolla, and the berries are 

 one-half smaller, red, and, when cultivated, not less angular than those of L. esculentum.^ 

 This tomato was noticed by Himiboldt * as under cultivation at La Victoria, Neuva Valencia, 

 and everywhere in the valleys of Arayus, in South America. It is described by Kunth,^ 

 1823, and by Willdenow, about 1806, from plants in the Berlin garden from seeds received 

 from Humboldt. The fruit, although small, has a fine flavor. The Turban, Turk's Cap, 

 or Turk's Turban, of our seedsmen, a novelty of 1881, belongs here, although this culti- 

 vated variety is probably a monstrous form. 



L. pimpinellifolium Mill, currant tomato. 



South America. The currant tomato bears its red fruit, somewhat larger than a com- 

 mon currant, or as large as a very large ciurant, in two-ranked racemes, which are 

 frequently quite large and abundantly filled. It grows wild in Peru and Brazil and is 

 figured by Feuillee,' 1725, but not as a cultivated plant. It is described by Linnaeus,' 



' Dunal, M. F. Synop. Solan, no. 1816. 

 'Salisbury Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 371. 1848. 

 Don, G. Hist. DicM. Pis. 4:443. 1838. 

 < Humboldt, A. Trav. 2:20. 1889. 

 'Salisbury Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 371. 1848. 

 Feuillee Peru 37, t. 25. 1725. 

 ' Linnaeus Sp. PI. 265. 1763. 



