ASCORBIC ACID IN TOMATOES 



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Table 4. — Ascorbic Acid Content of 98 Varieties and Strains of Tomatoes 

 (1936 Crop) — Continued. 



Plot 



Variety 



Ascorbic Acid 

 Milligrams per Gram 



Equivalent 



International 



Units 



Maximum Minimum Mean and per Ounce 

 S. D* 



15 Earliana, Forbes 35 



8C Spring Garden, Abbott and Cobb 46 



58 Globe, Livingston 36 



30 John Baer, Harris 29 



21 Selected Earliana, Forbes 36 



79 Prit chard, Livingston 41 



8 Belmont Improved, Grey 35 



73 N. Y. State, Comstock-Ferre 32 



71 Rutgers, Stokes 37 



63 Marglobe, Burpee 30 



50 Indiana Baltimore, F. H. Woodruff 32 



53 Golden Queen, Livingston 30 



12 Michigan State Forcing, Grand Rapids 39 



19 Penn. State Earliana, Burpee 35 



25 Clarks Early, F. H. Woodruff 30 



45 Stone, Eastern States 28 



48 Success, Harris 29 



27 Scarlet Dawn, Piatt 35 



51 Baltimore, Stokes ii 



38 Super Standard Bonny Best, Stokes 33 



70 Rutgers, Perry 38 



36 Bonny Best, Shirley 29 



64 Marglobe, Eastern States 30 



10 Grand Rapids Forcing, Grand Rapids 35 



35 Bonny Best, Livingston 31 



26 Scarlet Dawn, Comstock-Ferre ii 



59 Burpee's Globe, Burpee 27 



57 Globe, Eastern States 34 



13 Michigan State Forcing, Ferry-Morse 29 



82 Red Cherry, Comstock-Ferre 27 



65 A Marglobe, Certified, Landreth 28 



51A Bloomsdale, Landreth 31 



55 Grothen's Globe, Ferry-Morse ii 



55A Grothen's Red Globe (Certified) Landreth . .29 



62 Marglobe, F. H. Woodruff 28 



23 Avon Early, Burrell 32 



52 Beauty, Livingston 24 



54 Break O'Day, Certified, F. H. Woodruff. . . .28 



78 Pritchard, Eastern States 27 



68 Rutgers, Burpee 30 



69A Rutgers (Certified) Landreth 28 



74 Italian Pink Plum, Perry 30 



60 Master Marglobe, Stokes 24 



20 Penn. State Earliana, Eastern States 26 



72 N. Y. State, Hart and Vick 30 



14 Canadian, Harris 24 



77A Penn. State, Landreth 26 



80 Pritchard, Stokes 18 



♦Standard Deviation from the mean. 



Table 5 is a recapitulation of a part of the data in Table 4. Here the strains 

 of each important variety are grouped for comparison. The data show some 

 similarity between strains of each variety, but the variations are not perfectly 

 correlated with only one season's samples. 



Grouping the strains of the varieties aids in evaluating them as carriers of 

 ascorbic acid. The nine Massachusetts Field Station strains are consistently 



