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New Tomato, General Grant. 



NEW TOMATO, GENERAL GRANT. 



I RECEIVED last spring, through the kindness of a gentleman of this city, 

 a small package of the seed of this new tomato for trial ; too late, however 

 (May 15), to fairly test its merits on the score of earliness, but stJl 'n sea- 

 son to satisfy me that it combines more valuable qualities, aside from earli- 

 ness, than any other variety with which I am acquainted. If, upon further 

 trial, it should also prove early, it will become, as it will deserve, the most 

 valuable variety yet introduced. 



It originated, I arn informed, with an amateur ; a gentleman who has for 

 a long time taken great interest in the cultivation and improvement of this 

 popular vegetable. During the past five or six years, he has cultivated 

 this variety, in connection with the leading sorts, both new and old, for 

 the purpose of testing the comparative merits of each as to quality and 

 earliness ; and, in every case, this variety was found to be superior to all 

 others. 



'J'he fruit is above medium size, measuring from three to four inches in 

 diameter, and grows in clusters ; form round, slightly flattened, very regular, 

 symmetrical, and rarely ribbed or wrinkled ; color brilliant glossy crimson \ 

 flesh unusually firm, solid, and free from water, — more so than any variety 



