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Keport of the Horticulturist of the 
We add to this list the following whose characters, as given, scarcely 
justify specify rank : 
Lycopersicum Humboldtii. 
Stem herbaceous, hairy ; leaves unequally pinnate, hairy ; leaflets incised, 
glaucescent beneath, the lobes of the calyx but half as long as those of the 
corolla. 
Very like L. cerasiforme, but differs' in the racemes and flowers being 
smaller, the berries also smaller and red,[in the wild plant but about half 
the size of those under cultivation. Dun. sol., 112. 
The berry is 2-3 celled, smoothish, and when cultivated not less angular 
than those of L. esculentum, ex Nees. Don, gard. diet., IV, 443. 
Lycopersicum Humboldtii. Dun. sol., 1813, 112 — Kunth, syn., 1823, 
2, 157. 
Solanum Humboldtii. Poir. sup., 1813, 3, 759. 
Tomato of the island of Cura. Humboldt, trav., Bonn ed., 1852, 2, 20. 
This species is found wild in the region of the Rio Negro, South America 
(Dunal), and is cultivated in the province of Caracas, Venezuela (Kunth), and 
everywhere in the valleys of Aragua (Humb.). It was grown in Europe in 
1822 (Don.) 
I suspect the Turban tomato or Turk's Cap to be but a monstrous variety 
of this species, and that this species may be the original of some of the 
varieties of the L. esculentum, or cultivated tomato, but far more study 
must be given before this conclusion can be warranted.] 
E. L. S. 
Many of the cultivated varieties of the tomato are quite difficult of 
accurate description owing to the variability in the form and time of 
ripening of the fruit, and to the want of variety characters in the 
foliage. Horticultural works furnish little assistance, as comparatively 
few varieties have been described at all, and the descriptions of these 
are for the most part quite meager. Almost all of the varieties at 
present grown in this country are of American origin, and have been 
introduced within the past quarter of a century. 
Several of the varieties of more recent introduction bear a very close 
resemblance to each other, differing only in such characters as firmness 
of the flesh, the proportion of seed yielded, etc. As these characters 
have an economic importance, they cannot be ignored. In this article 
such distinctions have been recognized wherever they clearly exist. 
Explanation of Terms. 
In respect to size, a fruit measuring more than four inches in trans- 
verse diameter is called very large; one three to four inches in diame- 
ter is called large; one two and a half to three inches, medium, and one 
two to two and a half inches in diameter, small. Fruits of less diameter 
than two inches are called very small. 
