By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



abundantly productive. Though none of them equal in uti- 

 lity the common large red sort, which is usually grown ; 

 yet as many persons may be induced to cultivate them on 

 account of their singularity, it will not be altogether useless 

 to notice them. The small-fruited varieties are preferable to 

 the larger ones for pickles. 



The varieties of Tomatos with red fruit, which are at 

 present known in the gardens of Europe, are four, viz. the 

 Large Love Apple, or Tomate Grosse of the French ; the 

 Small Love Apple, or Tomate Petite ; the Pear-shaped Love 

 Apple, or Tomate en Poire ; and the Cherry Love Apple, 

 or Tomate Cerise. The first of these is too well known to 

 require any description. The second sort, the small Red 

 Love Apple, has a globular fruit, rather flattened at the 

 stalk and apex, about four inches in circumference; it 

 sometimes varies from its even shape, shewing a tendency to 

 form the distorted irregular lobes, separated from each other 

 by sutures, of the common large kind. The Pear-shaped 

 Love Apple bears egg-shaped fruit, with its narrow end next 

 the stalk, about two inches long, and between three and four 

 inches in circumference in its widest part ; all its fruits are 

 not exactly of the same shape : this kind seems more tender 

 than the others, as its produce does not ripen so early ; it is 

 figured by Dunal,* in his account of the genus Solanum. 

 The Cherry Red Love Apple has fruit the size of a large 

 Cherry, and quite round. 



In all these varieties the number of fruits produced on 

 every separate branch or raceme, is greater as the size of 

 each individual fruit is less ; in the last sort there are usually 

 * See Dunal, Hist, des Solanum, &c. Plate 26. 



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