. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. both inplant and fruit, of the various varieties pre-viously named, and it seems to be equal, thoughhardly superior to the best of them, a good sortin every respect, and one that may be countedas thoroughly reliable. Table Queen is shown in figs. 3 and 4. This isa new and quite distinct variety, with medium-sized foliage. Fruit rather large, quite flat, ofpurple color, remarkable for its weight andsolidity. The plants bear abundantly all throughthe season. It is another sort of merit o
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. both inplant and fruit, of the various varieties pre-viously named, and it seems to be equal, thoughhardly superior to the best of them, a good sortin every respect, and one that may be countedas thoroughly reliable. Table Queen is shown in figs. 3 and 4. This isa new and quite distinct variety, with medium-sized foliage. Fruit rather large, quite flat, ofpurple color, remarkable for its weight andsolidity. The plants bear abundantly all throughthe season. It is another sort of merit one thatwe certainly shall plant again. Mamfields Tree Tomato is represented by and 6, and also quite distinct. Ruby Queen,and Annie Dine, all introfluced last spring, re-semble it closely in every respect, and the threeare either identical, or from the same origin. Itis by no means a Tree Tomato, and no moreupright in growth, naturally, than any of ourordinary sorts; but it is by all odds the thriftiestgrower we have yet seen, and if grown in veryrich soil, trimmed to single stalks and tied to an. Four New Tmnatoes: 1 and 2 NichoVs Stone; S and 4 Table Queen; 5 and 6 Mansfields Tree;7 and 8 from Life on the Popular Gardening Grounds. Reduced m Size. eight foot pole, may reach the top long beforethe end of the season. It not only gives fruit oflargest size, but also in greatest varieties, indeed, will be found to evenapproach it in productiveness. The cross section(fig. 6) shows the seed cavities to be very small,and indeed we think no other varieties have yetequalled this in solidity. The green fruit usuallyhas dark stripes radiating from the apex like thespokes of a wheel, which, by the way, is also acharacteristic of Table Queen. Many of thespecimens are quite smooth and regular, butfurther improvement in this respect may beneeded. The color, a kind of purple, is not ofthe best. On the whole, we consider this a realnovelty, and one of c
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