HOUSE AND GARDEN 
M A Y 
1912 
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after laboring a decade on a variety, work 
has been given up in despair on seedlings 
that absolutely refused to become 
“straight.” 
A most remarkable point is illustrated 
in the photograph showing the Currant va¬ 
riety and one of the Modern Globes. After 
being, perhaps, thousands of years in cul¬ 
tivation through ancient and modern 
times, the tomato takes on again its orig¬ 
inal shape — the round or globe form. 
Thus nature asserts its own tendencies and 
the man who studies them with an under¬ 
standing mind will be amply rewarded. 
The ideal tomato we will have when we 
can grow fruits of the size of Globe in 
clusters containing the number of fruits in 
a Currant tomato cluster. So far as the 
fruit is concerned, the ideal tomato will 
soon be reached. 
Henceforth the efforts of the breeder 
must be concentrated on the tomato plant 
rather than on the fruit, for no variety in 
cultivation to-day grows vines or branches 
strong enough to support clusters of a 
dozen or more nine-ounce tomatoes. The 
plant must undergo many changes before 
that becomes possible and I doubt if it 
can ever come to pass that the tomato will 
have to be treated as an annual. Tropical 
South America is the original home of the 
tomato, and there it can and will do its best. 
When Peru evolves a tomato Burbank, we 
shall, perhaps, from imported seeds, have 
results which are suggested above. In the 
meantime, there are many years of serious 
work on tomatoes to be spent in this coun¬ 
try. Skin, color, solidity of fruit, flavor 
of flesh, keeping qualities, and many other 
factors may be worked on in connection 
with tomatoes, which will always he a 
staple in American gardens and homes. 
The lessons that may be extracted from 
this short sketch of the evolution of one 
vegetable are many. What is gained in 
solidity of flesh is often lost in flavor; 
gains in size of individual fruit are coun¬ 
teracted by loss in size of cluster. Choice 
fruit is obtained at the cost of productive¬ 
ness and quantity is lost to gain quality. 
But always and forever will quality be the 
first consideration. Those sorts that prove 
exceptions to the above rules are the ones 
that combine quality with productiveness, 
thanks to the intelligent application of the 
human mind. 
Improving the Flower Varieties 
{Continued from page 37) 
A fine annual of recent introduction, 
and as yet comparatively little known, 
is the African daisy (Dimorphotheca 
anrantiaca). The original is of a 
beautiful rich golden orange color, but 
already new hybrids have been secured 
which run through an extensive range 
of colors, white, light bine, yellow, 
red, lemon and salmon, and combinations 
of the above, in zoned forms, resembling 
cinerarias. The plant makes a dwarf 
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