. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Canada Victor Tomato. This is a a new tomato, concerning which Mr. J. J. H. Gregory says: "Last season a gentleman re siding in Canada sent me a glowing description of a new tomato. I wrote asking for a pinch of seed that I might test it in my experimental garden,—a tract of land of about three-quarters of an acre, which is pretty well filled every season with vari- eties of new vegetables my numerous correspond- ents kindly send me for trial. I planted these on my ground, anticipating the usual result, a tomato with some very good characteristic
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Canada Victor Tomato. This is a a new tomato, concerning which Mr. J. J. H. Gregory says: "Last season a gentleman re siding in Canada sent me a glowing description of a new tomato. I wrote asking for a pinch of seed that I might test it in my experimental garden,—a tract of land of about three-quarters of an acre, which is pretty well filled every season with vari- eties of new vegetables my numerous correspond- ents kindly send me for trial. I planted these on my ground, anticipating the usual result, a tomato with some very good characteristics, but on the whole not superior to some kinds already before the public. About the time the plants were put out, I left for Europe; when I returned my fore- man called my special attention to this new tomato, which had ripened its fruit several days earlier than any other kind of the twenty-five varieties I was grow- ing scattered over my different farms. On examining the new sort I saw at a glance that here was a de- cided acquisition. The fruit was not only the earliest of all, but of large size and exceedingly symmetrical and handsome, while in ripening it had no green left around the stem, a great fault with many kinds otherwise good. The fruit was heavy, full meated and rich, between round and oval in shape, and red in color; it was distributed very evenly on the vines. A correspondence developed the fact that the gentleman who sent it had for the past three seasons been testing it side by side with other standard varieties, and found that it ripened six to ten days earlier. 'Bhis fact may be in part accounted for by its having been grown for years in a northern latitude, while the utmost care had always been used in the selecting of seed stock. As fair a test as I can present of its merits is this: a market gardener came over forty miles specially to examine my varieties of tomatoes on the ground as they grew, that he might select the very best for his own planting. Af
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