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tested with the Cook's Favorite, Tilden, and PoweWs 

 Early, and with no perceptible advantage in earliness to 

 either, but the Early Smooth presented the greatest 



Fig. 69. EARLY SMOOTH RED TOMATO. 



amount of marketable fruit. This variety is of medium 

 size ; rich coral-red ; roundish ; much flattened ; very solid. 



The Cook's Favorite, Differing but little from the 

 preceding, except in shape of the fruit, which is rounder 

 and less flattened. It is grown largely of late years in 

 the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and in southern New 

 Jersey, but is not yet a " favorite " in New York. 



Tilden. This variety, issued last season with a fame 

 that had been widely sounded ns being far in advance of 

 all others in earliness, productiveness, and every other 

 good quality, will not sustain its recommendation. It 

 proves, with me, no better in any respect than the first 

 named on this list, and if no better, should never have 

 been sent out. 



Powell's Early. Rather a distinct variety with smaller 

 foliage than any of the preceding ; fruit smooth round, 

 inclined to cluster ; of a deep scarlet crimson color ; very 

 solid and with few seeds. 

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