. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. LTCOPERSICUM. -# 1337. The Currant Tomato,— Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium. tion for their fruits. Fls. small, yellow, C% nearly rotate when in full bloom, in short ''™' superaxillary racemes; stamens 5, connate about the single style : ovary 2-loculed in the non-ameliorated forms, becoming a fleshy, many-seeded
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. LTCOPERSICUM. -# 1337. The Currant Tomato,— Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium. tion for their fruits. Fls. small, yellow, C% nearly rotate when in full bloom, in short ''™' superaxillary racemes; stamens 5, connate about the single style : ovary 2-loculed in the non-ameliorated forms, becoming a fleshy, many-seeded berry: foliage irregu- larly or interruptedly pinnate, rank-smell- ing: plant usually pubescent, straggling. In native conditions. Tomatoes are probably perennial, but in domestication they are treated as if annual. Ten- der to frost. See Tomato. esculentum, Mill. Common Tomato. Fig. 1334. Plant spreading, with grayish green, mostly conduplicate ("curled") leaves and slender, ascending shoots: Ivs. pinnate, with small, nearly entire leaflets interposed, the main leaflets notched or even lobed towards the base: fls. in a short raceme of 4-6: fr. medium to small, flat- tened endwise and furrovred on the sides. —In cultiva- tion for more than 300 years. Two hundred years ago red and yellow varieties were known. The great evolu- tion of the Tomato did not take place until this century, giving rise to the garden race. Var. vulgare, Bailey. Fig. 1336, No. 2. This is the com- mon garden Tomato of North America, distinguished by very heavy growth, greener foliage, much larger and plane Ivs., the comparative absence of stiffish as- cending shoots (in the mature plant), few fls., and larger, "smoother" (i. e., not furrowed) fr., which has numerous locules or cells.—There is every reason for believing that the original Tomato had a 2-loculed (2-ceUed) fruit, but the course of amelioration has mul- tiplied the locules; it has also modified the foliage and the s
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