By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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sicum. By Dunal,* who has made a species of the Red 

 Cherry Tomato, it is considered as a variety of that kind, 

 which it resembles in shape and size, differing only in 

 colour. 



Some Horticultural works mention a White Love Apple, 

 but I have not been able to obtain any very satisfactory 

 account of it, still less to find it in cultivation. I suspect 

 that it has been lost many years since from our gardens. 

 It is, however, mentioned by Besler, (whose work, pub- 

 lished in 1613, I have already noticed) and by Tournefort, 

 who refers to the plant in Caspar Bauhin's Pinax. These 

 authorities may perhaps be considered as sufficient evidence 

 of its former existence, 



There is reason to suppose that, besides the White Love 

 Apple, other varieties have disappeared. Caspar Bauhin 

 in his Pinaxf says that the Solanum pomiferum, had " fructus 

 lutei, auricolores, aliquando pulchre rubentes : rarius albi :" 

 the Golden coloured ones, which are also mentioned by other 

 old writers, and even by Dodoens, are not now to be found. 

 TournefortJ mentions nine kinds, the first seven of which, 

 I conceive, are all varieties of one species. They are as 

 follows: 1. Lycopersicum Galeni, 2. L. fructu rubro non 

 striato. 3. L. fructu luteo. 4. L. fructu alio. 5. L. fructu 

 rubro pallescente. 6. L. fructu cerasi rubro. 7. L. fructu 

 cerasi luteo. 8. L. fructu striato duro. 9. L. americanum 

 arborescens. The first is our large Red Love Apple. The 

 second is perhaps the small Love Apple, which has red 



* See Dunal Solan, page 1 13, and Solan. Synop. page 4. 



f See C. Bauhin Pinax, page 167- 



J See Inst. Rei Herb. edit. 3, vol. i. page 150. 



