writing that it seemed to him that
our cultivated sorts must have come from the crossing of a small, round,
smooth, sutureless type, with a larger, deep-sutured, corrugated fruit,
like that of the Mammoth Chihuahua, but smaller. However this may be, I
think that it is wise to throw all of our cultivated garden sorts,
except the Pear, the Cherry, and the Grape--which I regard as distinct
species--together under the name of _L. esculentum_, even when we know
they have originated by direct crosses with the other species; and it is
well to classify the upright growing sorts under the varietal names, _L.
validum_, and the larger, heavier sorts, as _L. grandifolium_, as has
been done by Bailey. (Cyclopedia of Horticulture.)

CHAPTER II

History

The garden vegetable known in this country as tomato and generally as
tomate in continental Europe, is also known as Wolf-peach and Love Apple
in England and America, and Liebesapfel in Germany, Pomme d'Amour in
France, Pomo d'oro in Italy, Pomidor in Poland.

=Origin of name.=--The name tomato is of South American origin, and is
derived from the Aztec word _xitomate_, or _zitotomate_, which is given
the fruit of both the Common tomato and that of the Husk or Strawberry
tomato or Physalis. Both vegetables were highly prized and extensively
cultivated by the natives long before the discovery of the country by
Europeans, and there is little doubt that many of the plants first seen
and described by Europeans as wild species were really garden varieties
originated with the native Americans by the variation or crossing of the
original wild species.

=Different types now common=, according to Sturtevant, have become known
to, and been described by Europeans in about the following order:

1. Large yellow, described by Matthiolus in 1554 and called
Golden apple.

2. Large red, described by Matthiolus in 1554 and called Love
apple.

3. Purple red, described by D'el Obel in 1570.

4. White-fleshed, described by Dodoens in 1586.

5. Red cherry, described by Bauhin in 1620.

6. Yellow cherry, described by Bauhin in 1620.

7. Ochre yellow, described by Bauhin in 1651.

8. Striped, blotched or visi-colored, described by Bauhin in
1651.

9. Pale red, described by Tournefort in 1700.

10. Large smooth, or ribless red, described by Tournefort in
1700.

11. Bronzed-leaved, described by Blac