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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Septemhpr 2<; 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
Not a Tomato Year. —The tomato 'S 
a fairly manageable plant, thriving un¬ 
der quite adverse conditions, but this 
cool wet Summer has tried many fine 
plantings to the limit of endurance. 
There is a late and partial crop of fruits, 
occasionally of good quality, but early 
settings were very light. Prices rule 
high enough on market grades to give 
fair returns in some instances, but con¬ 
tract plantings for the canneries at $8 a 
ton will generally fail to pay expenses. 
Only smooth bright red tomatoes are 
wanted in this locality. The pink or 
purple varieties, though often of excel¬ 
lent quality, are not liked, as they are 
dull in color when packed. Paragon, 
Matchless and Stone are grown most 
largely for main crop; Atlantic Prize, 
Freedom and lately Earliana -for first 
earlies. We have made careful trials of 
the following new sorts: 
Pepper’s Proeieic. —This was intro¬ 
duced as a forcing variety, being bred 
for that purpose by the originator of the 
Lorillard Winter tomato. It is evi¬ 
dently a hybrid of the Pium tomato, the 
fruits having only two cells, as shown 
in the reduced cut of a cluster, first page. 
Fig. 252. In growth and appearance the 
plant resembles King Humbert, a whit¬ 
ish Italian kind, very popular in south¬ 
ern Europe, but the fruits are much 
larger and color a good red when fully 
ripe. Trials outside and under glass 
convince us of its great vigor and as¬ 
tonishing productiveness, but the mod¬ 
erate size and flabby quality of the to¬ 
matoes when ready for use would “queer” 
them in any discriminating market. 
When well fertilized and trained to a 
single stem in the manner of forcing to¬ 
matoes it will go on almost indeflnitely, 
producing clusters like the one shown 
in the engraving at every third node, 
and in the garden it seems equally free. 
Where quantity, at the expense of size 
and table quality can be tolerated. Pep¬ 
per’s Proliflc may be useful. It is one of 
the earliest to ripen outside. 
Eareiana has been before the public 
several years, and is superseding all 
other first earlies in many localities, for 
truckers’ uses. It appears to be an ex¬ 
treme development, by long and careful 
selection, of the Early Jersey Red, and 
excels all varieties of that type, such as 
Atlantic Prize, Early Ruby, etc., in 
quick maturity of its fruits. Other kinds, 
including the dwarf Quarter Century, 
may be so handled inside in early Spring 
as to set a truss or so of fruits before 
planting out, that may color up before 
Earliana, but no other yet tested on the 
Rural Grounds ripens in quantity so 
rapidly. It has the scraggy open growth 
characteristic of very early tomatoes, 
admitting sunlight freely to the fruits, 
but has enough vigor under good condi¬ 
tions to perfect a large crop. The toma¬ 
toes color bright scarlet, grow to good 
market size and are much less inclined 
to be ribbed and unshapely than other 
very early kinds. They may be picked 
when showing only a touch of red, and 
ripen up in presentable shape almost on 
their way to market. Earliana has 
proven a most profitable variety to South 
Jersey gardeners, and its culture will 
doubtless greatly extend, but its quality 
is thin and sour, something better than 
Florida tomatoes as we get them, but 
far behind most standard Summer kinds. 
Early Jew’el (Chalk’s). —This is a 
novelty of the year sent out by W. Atlee 
Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Our 
plants were started later than those of 
the other varieties here noted, so no fair 
(rial could be made this season as to 
the comparative earliness of ripening. 
Chalk’s Jewel, however, appears to rival 
the best earlies in this respect, and in 
addition bears a great crop of large, deep 
round and smooth tomatoes, of first-rate 
table qualitjL The color is deep scarlet. 
From this single trial and observation 
in other localities, we regard it as a 
most promising variety. 
Froomore (Selected) has been 
known for some time as a useful forcing 
tomato. It is early, extremely produc¬ 
tive, setting well in dull weather, and 
is of good quality. Under glass it gets 
of fair size, averaging somewhat small¬ 
er than the handsome and popular Loril¬ 
lard, but outside many little nubbins 
are produced. The color is a good deep 
red, the fruits firm and well shaped; 
quality very good. In the garden it 
grows and yields well, but runs too small 
in size. 
Best of All is a famous English 
glasshouse variety, of vigorous consti¬ 
tution, large size, fine quality and color. 
It is about the best cropper under glass, 
but the plant is coarse and leafy, requir¬ 
ing more room than Mayflower or Loril¬ 
lard. The fruits are handsome and sal¬ 
able whether grown under cover or in 
the garden. It has a tendency to grow 
large outside, and American seeds in a 
generation or two are likely to produce 
tomatoes almost double the size of those 
grown from imported seeds. It makes 
a good main-crop garden variety, and 
well repays growing to single stems 
trained to stake or trellis. 
Holmes Sufreme. —Another British 
variety, much lauded when introduced. 
In 1900 it gained a high award from the 
Royal Horticultural Society of London, 
and has since been extensively tested, 
often with disappointing results. Our 
trials sho'w a strong tendency to revert 
to the small Cherry tomato type. Some 
plants grown from imported seeds bear 
great clusters of two-celled fruits less 
than an inch through, others have 
round, brilliant red tomatoes, with three 
or four cells, two or more inches in 
diameter. Evidently the variety was in¬ 
troduced before thoroughly fixed by se¬ 
lection, and wholesale reversion is now 
about due. We understand there have 
been considerable losses from the rather 
extensive planting of this new tomato, 
as the small fruited form has largely 
predominated in some trials. It is a 
rather light cropper under glass over 
here and luay be regarded as worthless 
in the garden. The appearance of the 
larger fruits is attractive and the qual¬ 
ity excellent.. 
Eolifse and Stirling Castle. —These 
are also English forcing tomatoes. They 
do not seem to have very distinctive 
characters as grow'n here, resembling 
Best of All quite closely, but are not im¬ 
provements on that excellent kind. We 
find Stirling Castle the better of the two, 
both under glass and outside. Eclipse 
seems rather shy in setting, but the 
fruits are attractive and of good size. 
Our Kjnds Best. —The glasshouse cul¬ 
ture of tomatoes has been brought to 
great perfection in northern Europe, 
where the Summers are seldom warm 
enough to grow tomatoes in the open, 
and many varieties suitable for local 
climatic conditions have been developed. 
With the exception of Frogmore and 
Best of All, however, these exotics do 
not meet our requirements. We have a 
long list of excellent' market and gar¬ 
den kinds to choose from, and the May¬ 
flower and Lorillard for glass culture. 
Vai'ieties originating in southern Eu¬ 
rope, where the culture is in the open, 
do not seem to be much more success¬ 
ful when brought over here. The to¬ 
mato is essentially a New World pro¬ 
duct, and will probably reach its high¬ 
est development here. Imported seeds 
of the above mentioned English varie¬ 
ties cost from 25 to 50 cents a packet, 
and may scarcely be considered worth 
the money for our use. Fine selected 
home-grown seeds are sold at an aver¬ 
age of 10 cents a packet, and are usually 
of more uniform quality. w. v. f. 
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