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Solanaceous Fruits 



is still in the catalogues, it does not follow that the variety 

 itself, as originally known, can still be identified. The 

 round regular (" smooth ") tomatoes are now almost every- 

 where grown (Fig. 147), in contrast to the angular 

 wrinkled kinds of many years ago. Leading names at 

 present are Stone, Ponderosa, Earliana, Acme. Crimson 



IHA. Large-leaved tomato (X 1/5). 



155. Upright tomato (X 1/6). 



Cushion, Beauty, Matchless, Dwarf Champion, Golden 

 Queen. For preserving, the smaller kinds are grown, as 

 Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry tomatoes (Pigs. 148, 149). 

 Attention is now given to the breeding of disease-resistant 

 varieties. 



The Tomato Plant 

 Lycopersicon. Solanacem. A dozen or so weak brancliing 

 herbs, perennial and perhaps some of them annual, of South 



