for the garden, perhaps not superior
to many other kinds; but for field-culture, for market, for making
catchup in quantities, or for the use of pickle-warehouses, it is
recommended as one of the best of all the sorts now cultivated.

GRAPE OR CLUSTER TOMATO.

Solanum sp.

This variety, or more properly species, differs essentially in the
character of its foliage, and manner of fructification, from the Garden
Tomato. The leaves are much smoother, thinner in texture, and have
little of the musky odor peculiar to the Common Tomato-plant. The fruit
is nearly globular, quite small, about half an inch in diameter, of a
bright-scarlet color, and produced in leafless, simple, or compound
clusters, six or eight inches in length, containing from twenty to sixty
berries, or tomatoes; the whole having an appearance not unlike a large
cluster, or bunch of currants.

The plants usually grow about three feet in height or length; and, in
cultivation, should be treated in all respects like those of other
varieties. Flowers yellow, and comparatively small. Early.

Though quite ornamental, it is of little value in domestic economy, on
account of its diminutive size.

LARGE RED TOMATO.

[Illustration: Large Red Tomato.]

Fruit sometimes smooth, often irregular, flattened, more or less ribbed;
size large, but varied much by soil and cultivation,--well-grown
specimens are from three to four inches in diameter, two inches and a
half in depth, and weigh from eight to twelve ounces; skin smooth,
glossy, and, when ripe, of a fine red color; flesh pale-red, or
rose-color,--the interior of the fruit being comparatively well filled;
flavor good.

Not early, but one of the most productive of all the varieties; the
plants, when properly treated, producing from twelve to fifteen pounds
each.

From the time of the introduction of the Tomato to its general use in
this country, the Large Red was almost the only kind cultivated, or even
commonly known. The numerous excellent sorts now almost everywhere
disseminated, including the Large Red, Oval, Fejee, Seedless, Giant, and
Lester's Perfected, are but improved sub-varieties, obtained from the
Common Large Red by cultivation and selection.

LARGE RED OVAL-FRUITED TOMATO.

A sub-variety of the Large Red. Fruit oval, flattened, much less ribbed,
more symmetrical, and more uniform in size, than the last named;
well-grown specimens measure about four inches in one direction, three
inch