HOME' VEGETABLE GARDENING; 
TOMATOES FOR PRESERVING 
S INCE it is conceivable, perhaps, that all tomatoes 
at one time were very small, it is not strange that 
among the preserving kinds we find all the variations in 
color, shape, and type, encountered among the large- 
fruited sorts. Thus, in the Currant Tomato we have 
immense clusters of twenty to thirty fruits, red and small 
like a currant, with plenty of seeds, little meat, and a 
strong skin. 
Red and Yellow Cherry Tomatoes, Red and Yellow Plum 
and Pear-shaped sorts prove also very useful for preserv- 
ing. Finally, in Livingston s Large Rose Peach we have a 
sort that most nearly approaches some of the modern, 
globe-shaped sorts in shape, but not quite in size or quality. 
It looks very much like a peach. 
The dwarf type of tomato with very heavy foliage and 
of compact growth is represented among the small sorts 
by Burbank’s Preserving, which is of the size of a cherry, 
very solid, and of pronounced flavor. 
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