I. VEGETABLES 



New Hampshire 



Plant-breeding Program 



Experiments with 



TOMATOES 



PEAS 



POPCORN 



SQUASHES 



EGGPLANT 



CABBAGE 

 CARROTS 



MELONS 



PEPPERS 



BEANS 



early varieties which can be ma- 

 tured in the northern part of the 

 state where the growing season is 

 extremely short; (2) the develop- 

 ment of tomatoes of higher nutritive 

 value. 



CHATHAM OR HOME GARDEN 



The Chatham variety of tomato is 

 particularly suited to short-season 

 sections of New Hampshire. It is 

 also grown as an extremely early 

 variety in the southern part of the 

 state where the fruit is sold in com- 

 petition with the trellis-grown Comet. 



Chatham's parents were Victor 

 and Redskin. This variety was not 

 wholly produced at the New Hamp- 

 shire Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. It was introduced from the 

 Michigan Station after the author 

 moved to New Hampshire. Final 

 selections were tested at the New 

 Hampshire Station before they were 

 named. A picture of this variety is 

 shown on the opposite page. 



ORANGE KING 



The Orange King variety resulted 

 from a cross between the Neiv Hamp- 

 shire Victor and Orange Dawn, the 

 latter an orange sport of Scarlet 

 Daunt. Orange King is an orange- 

 fleshed variety, is determinate in 

 vine type, and bears fairly large 

 oblate fruits which ripen at a medi- 

 um early time. As the orange flesh 

 is much more attractive than yellow, 

 the variety is appreciated by people 

 who like the golden color of its flesh 

 and its mild flavor. See opposite 

 page for a picture of Orange King. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE VICTOR 



The breeding work with tomatoes The JSeiv Hampshire Victor varie- 



has proceeded along two principal ty came from a cross between Allred 

 lines: (1) the development of very and Mar globe, made first at the 



The New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station's plant-breeding 

 program has made its most rapid 

 progress with vegetable crops be- 

 cause the nature of the plants adapts 

 them more readily than fruits to its 

 advancement. 



Vegetables can be developed more 

 quickly than fruits and they do not 

 require as much space while they 

 are maturing. Many vegetables can 

 complete a generation in a year or 

 less but fruits need a much longer 

 time. An apple tree, for instance, 

 requires ten years to fruit from 

 seed and it takes a long time to pro- 

 duce and distribute a good new 

 variety. It is obvious, too, that an 

 apple tree needs much more space 

 than a bean plant to mature. These 

 are some of the reasons why fruit- 

 breeding operations are more expen- 

 sive and more time-consuming than 

 those carried on with vegetables. 



The results of some of the Sta- 

 tion's plant-breeding experiments 

 with vegetables follow. 



TOMATOES 



