. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LYCOPERSICUM. 1337. The Currant Tomato.— Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, for their fruits. Fls. small, yellow, 0 nearly rotate wben in full bloom, in short superaxillary racemes; stamens5, connate about the single styl
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LYCOPERSICUM. 1337. The Currant Tomato.— Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium, for their fruits. Fls. small, yellow, 0 nearly rotate wben in full bloom, in short superaxillary racemes; stamens5, 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, hut in domestication they are treated as if annual. Ten- der to frost. See Tomato. esculSntum, 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 furrowed 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. , 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 stiflfish 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-celled) fruit, but the course of amel
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