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from the preceding subdivision chiefly by the pear-shaped or ob- 

 long pendent fruit. Bed and yellow varieties are known. The 

 Nesbit's Victoria has foliage much like that of Section d. 



(c) Var. vulgare. The common tomatoes, represented by three 

 main groups: 



1. Oblong tomatoes : Fruit as long as or longer than broad, 

 the walls very thick and firm, the placentae usually not meet- 

 ing the inside of the wall, causing the fruit to feel as if 

 hollow. Bed and purple varieties are known. Represented 

 by King Humbert and Criterion. 



2. Angular tomatoes: Fruit medium or below in size, 

 mostly very flat, plane on top, more or less cornered, the 

 lobes most conspicuous on the bottom and sides. This is the 

 type of the original Large Red, the first market tomato. The 

 type is almost lost in many of our later improvements, and 

 it is now too inconstant, perhaps, to be relied upon as a sec- 

 tional character. The angular tomatoes are practically out 

 of cultivation in this country. In many of the varieties the 

 leaves are singularly curled. Only red varieties are known, 

 but many of them are very light or orange-red, and one, the 

 German Gestreifte, is striped with orange. 



3. Apple-shaped tomatoes: Fruit various in size or shape, 

 but in normal forms more or less rounded on top, the mon- 

 strous or overgrown specimens developing a scar-like line or 

 ring on the top and the ends of the fruit turning downwards. 

 These comprise by far the larger number of the tomatoes of 

 the present time. Some of the varieties, like Green Gage, 

 Peach, and White Apple, are much like the Cherry tomatoes 

 (var. cerasiforme) and should, perhaps, be classed with them. 

 Red varieties predominate, but purple, yellow and white va- 

 rieties exist. 



(d) Var. grandifolium . Large-leaf tomatoes. Habit and fruit as 

 in section c; leaves very large; leaflets fewer than common (about 

 two pairs), large (the blade three to four inches long and an inch 

 and a half wide), entire, the lower side strongly decurrent. 

 Leaves of very young plants entire ! The terminal leaflet is often 

 six inches long and four or more inches broad. Represented by 



