NOTES ON VARIETIES I9 



TABLE I— Continued. 

 Comparison of Varieties. Ten Plants Used as the Basis of Estimation. 



VARIETY NAME. 



Seedsman. 



30 

 31 

 32 

 33 

 34 

 35 

 36 

 37 

 38 

 39 

 40 

 41 

 42 

 43 

 44 

 4.5 

 46 

 47 

 48 

 49 

 50 

 51 

 52 

 53 

 54 

 55 

 56 



Bright and Early (large) . . . 



President Cleveland 



Crimson Cushion 



Ponderosa 



Belmont 



Acme 



Early Leader 



McCullom's Hybrid 



Puritan 



County Fair 



Imperial 



Fordhook First , 



Chenery's Early 



Thorburn Long- Keeper 



Red Cross 



Red Bird 



Fifty Days the Earliest 



Morning Star 



Bright and Early (medium) 

 Bond's Early Minnesota... 



Wisconsin Climbing 



First of All 



Clustered Small Red 



Large Yellow 



Large Red (clustered ) 



Perfection 



Dwarf Champion 



Farquhar. 



Henderson, 



(( 



Breck. 



(t 



Vick. 

 i( 



Rawson. 

 Buckbee. 



Burpee. 



(1 



Sch.& Fottler 



Cooke. 



Salzer. 

 .1 



Dreer. 

 (I 



May. 



i( 



F. W. Brooke 



H. Barnard. 

 Biedermann. 



NOTES ON VARIETIES 



Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are Latidreth's crosses, the names of 

 which can be found in Table I. They are of interest from the 

 standpoint of plant-breeding, but are too unstable for general 

 recommendation. All were comparatively late and yielded 

 below the average. 



7. T'en Toti. — Smooth, crimson tomato, of fair size, good 

 shape, and moderate firmness. Ripens slowly after first color- 

 ing. 



8. Early Richmond. — No longer deserves planting ; two 

 weeks later than other better varieties. Good size, productive, 

 ripening rapidly after it has once turned ; but is a rough, flat- 



