Photograph by O. F. Cook 



A WILD TOMATO OF THE EASTERN ANDES 



Growing as a large woody vine at elevations of 8,000 feet, this plant trails over bushes 

 10 to 12 feet high. The fruits are of uniform size and of the usual form of our cultivated 

 tomatoes. The flesh under the skin is thick and hrm, so that the fruits can be handled easily 

 and kept for long periods. There is a possibility of making use of it in hybridizing and 

 breeding new varieties. If such a cross can be made, it may be expected to give a wide range 

 of variation and yield new types of fruit adapted to special purposes, such as woody perennial 

 varieties that can be trained over arbors like grape-vines, or varieties with special flavors, 

 greater firmness of flesh, and improved keeping qualities (natural size). 



the ancient Peruvians performed a last- 

 ing service for the whole world. We are 

 all beneficiaries of the ancient Peruvian 

 agriculture. 



From our point of view, the steep, 

 narrow, rocky valleys of southern Peru 

 would represent a most unfavorable con- 

 dition for agricultural development : but 

 no doubt the ancient people saw things 

 in a different light, and what thev were 

 able to accomplish is a lesson in possibili- 

 ties that onr own race has still to learn. 

 We are beginning to see that the agricul- 

 tural ideal of human welfare, of living 



and letting others live around us, is 

 higher than the military or savage ideal 

 of killing all strangers through fear or 

 jealousy of competition. But our tradi- 

 tions, literature, and social institutions 

 are still so largely military or commer- 

 cial that we have not seriously considered 

 agriculture as an aim or ideal of exist- 

 ence. We have not sent forth our im- 

 aginations to grasp a vision of agricul- 

 tural development, either for humanity as 

 a whole or for our own European race in 

 the new continent that we have overrun 

 but not yet occupied. 



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