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DECS5MBEB 26, 1907. 



DOOM OF THE BIG TOMATO. 



The big tomato has had its day, and its 

 fate has been settled by that voice which 

 decides what shall and shall not be in 

 most matters of public interest, i. e,, 

 public opinion. When the man in the 

 street first cultivated his palate up to a 

 point of liking tomatoes, growers set out 

 to provide him with big fruits, which 

 went all right for a time. The new 

 varieties of a few years ago were char- 

 acterized by the size of their fruit, and 

 there is no telling what pitch we should 

 have got to by now if things had gone 

 on, but the consumer put the veto on big 

 tomatoes, and they have gone under. 

 Perhaps he admired the monsters when 

 seen on the show board, but when he 

 went to the shop for a pound of toma- 

 toes he didn't want a single fruit, but 

 about four, and market growers soon be- 

 gan to realize this. 



Exhibitors have followed in the same 

 line, and today one rarely sees monstrous 

 fruits staged, and- if they are they are 

 generally passed over for medium-sized 

 specimens, for judges, as a rule, have 

 got to treat tomatoes on the show board 

 from a utility point of view. 



Again, the cook has had something to 

 do with the triumph of the medium-sized 

 tomato. She plainly indicated to the 

 gardener that he could keep his big 

 fruits to show, or do what he liked 

 with them, but she wouldn't have them, 

 and now the four or five to the pound 

 variety rules supreme in the private gar- 

 den, as it does in the market establish- 

 ment. Baisers, too, have come into line, 

 and the tomatoes of recent introduction 

 which are now popular are varieties 

 which bear large clusters of medium- 

 sized fruits, that are bright in color, and 

 are not given to cracking. Doubtless we 

 shall have more new varieties as time 

 goes on, but unless they favor the above 

 description, and are heavy croppers, they 

 will stand a poor chance, for in the to- 

 mato world today quantity with quality 

 is demanded, rather than individual size. 

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