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We shall have occasion to revert to this subject 

 more than once, and to point out various possible 

 interpretations of the phenomena, various under- 

 lying harmonies that do not appear on the sur- 

 face. But for the moment we are concerned 

 with the story of the new tomato, and may be 

 content to put forward the facts regarding it 

 without great insistence on their theoretical 

 interpretation. 



Suffice it that the progeny of the treelike 

 tomato and the trailing one were a varied com- 

 pany, giving the plant developer almost endless 

 opportunities for selection. 



I chose, naturally, from among them those 

 that bore the handsomest and largest fruit, and 

 in planting these was enabled, in the course of 

 several generations, to secure a very handsome 

 plant with attractive fruit of new type which 

 came true from seed. It required about six years 

 to produce and make sure of the new variety, 

 which was announced in my first catalogue of 

 new plants, issued in 1893. The description 

 there given of the new fruit was as follows: 



An Interesting Hybrid 



"This distinct novelty and ornamental fruiting 

 plant grows about twelve inches high by fifteen 

 inches across. 



