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TOMATOES— LATE PURPLE SORTS 
r I "'HOUGH not quite up to the standard of Globe de- 
■*- scribed on preceding page, the title of best purple 
main crop sort cannot be denied Livingston s Beauty (il- 
lustrated above). Introduced thirty years ago, it is still 
the standard in many sections because of its great adap- 
tability to different soils and climates. It matures in 
1 15-120 days, fruits are flat but deep through, smooth, 
solid, and of uniformly good quality. 
Trucker s Favorite is considered the Purple Stone by 
many in the East. It is a slightly later sort, compared 
with Beauty, and is at the height of its yielding season 
when Beauty declines. The fruits average alike. 
Henderson s Ponderosa is the largest but also the latest 
in this class. It yields truly enormous fruits of remark- 
able solidity. But since many of them are either rough or 
heavily ribbed, the waste in connection with this sort is 
often quite large. However, late clusters often bear 
fruits of great size and beauty. 
