TOMATOES FOR EXPORT. 



Fig. 1571. — Honor Bright Tomato. 



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r E are very anxious to find a 

 variety of tomato that may be 

 carefully recommended for ex- 

 port. So far the Ignotum has 

 the most generally satisfactory 

 variety we have tried, for it is a wonder- 

 ful yielder, and carries fairly well. Dwarf 

 Champion and Dwarf Aristocrat were a 

 perfect failure, and were to blame for 

 the bad reports of results last year in 

 shipping to Great Britain. 



We notice that Mr. T Greiner, gard- 

 ener near Niagara Falls, N.Y., writes in 

 Farm and Fireside most favorably of Mr. 

 Livingston's new tomato the Honor 

 Bright, as follows : 



The illustration gives a pretty good 

 idea of this new type, which the Liv- 

 ingston's gave us last year. The follow- 

 ing is the catalogue description, and it 

 fits like a glove : " The foliage is yel- 

 lowish green, and the fruit grows in 

 clusters of from three to five large to- 

 matoes. The color when fully ripe is a 

 rich, bright red, but during growth it 

 makes several interesting changes in 



color, first light green, then an attractive 

 waxy white, then lemon, changing to 

 rich, bright red at maturity. It is one 

 of the most attractive varieties grown. 

 The quality is very fine, flesh thick and 

 mealy, with small seed-cavities. The 

 skin never cracks and the fruits are so 

 solid that if picked when white they 

 can be shipped in barrels like apples, 

 and after a period of three to four weeks 

 will be solid and ripened to rich, bright 

 red." My friend, the editor of the New 

 York (former Orange County) Farmer, 

 speaks in terms by no means flattering 

 of this sort, and seems to consider it a 

 curiosity. I do not agree with him, and 

 shall plant quite largely of it. But 

 don't plant it for an early sort. It is 

 rather late, as the fruit requires consider- 

 able time to go through all these changes 

 in color. I recently saw a report from 

 London, England, saying that the ship- 

 ment of tomatoes from here had not 

 proved a success, and surely not profit- 

 able to the shipper. The fruit in most 

 cases was allowed to get too ripe before 



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