Livingstons Favorite

Ripe in 128 days. Large, fine fruit of red color, very smooth and fine ; cracked a little at stem, bore a long time ; among the best. Kept 8 days.

Livingston's Beauty

Ripe in 128 days. Of good size, smooth and solid, free from cracks until the long rain, when all badly cracked and rotted. Kept 5 days.

Cardinal

Ripe in 138 days. Good size, bears well and for a long time, stood rain good without cracks. Kept 7 days.

Acme

Ripe in 128 days. Medium size, round, smooth and solid, yellow and hard at stem - a bad fault - and cracked badly in rain. Kept 5 days.

Trophy

Ripe in 128 days. Large size, some wrinkled, heavy bearer, solid, free from hard core, quality good ; cracked but little in rain. Kept 7 days.

Matchless

Ripe in 128 days. Good crop, bright red, solid, good quality, stood rain well. Kept 14 days.

Paragon

Ripe in 131 days. Had black rot before ripe; bright red, solid and smooth, productive and long in bearing, free from cracks in rain. Kept 9 days.

Lorillard

Ripe in 128 days. Good size, bright, glossy red, smooth and solid, good in quality, good bearer, picking a long time; cracked a little in the long rain. Kept 15 days.

Dwarf Champion

Ripe in 138 days, not keeping its reputation for earliness. Fruit similar to Acme in size and color ; shy bearer, badly cracked. Kept 6 days.

French Tree (Upright)

Ripe in 155 days. No good.

Station

Ripe in 115 days. This is a cross of the Alpha and French Tree, grown by Mr. Goff at the New York State Experiment Station several years ago. It was the first to ripen of all I had; of medium size, round, smooth and solid, of good flavor; cracked some at stem, was free from rot, has very few seeds - one of good size counting only fifty-five. Some of the plants were literally covered with fruit, it standing along the stem as though tied on like onions. The plant has the habit of its parent, "The Tree," in no other respect resembling it, however, as it was first early. When killed by frost, it was still full of green and ripe fruit. It would seem to be good for greenhouses, although I have not tried it there. I would not recommend it for general crop ; still I think it may become a favorite in small gardens and for its earliness. It may be found not to ripen as fast as some varieties, but its earliness and good quality will make amends for that. In small gardens it may be planted only 2½ feet apart.

Puritan

Ripe in 134 days. Large, smooth, well ripened at stem, bright red, quality good: large crop, lasting a long time. Kept well in rain. Kept 8 days.

Mikado

Ripe in 130 days. Very like Turner's Hybrid, though not so smooth and not so well selected. Kept 5 days.

Shah (White Mikado)

Like Mikado, only light, and like all yellow sorts, very watery and thin when cooked; cracked badly. Kept 6 days.

New Jersey

Ripe in 126 days. Very fine, large, solid, bright red, of good quality ; bears well and cracked but little in rain. Kept 6 days.

Early Washington

Ripe in 125 days. Badly wrinkled and worthless.

Hovey

Ripe in 125 days. Bright red, smooth, solid, good. Kept 15 days.

Hundred Day

Ripe in 129, days. Wrinkled and cracked; worthless.

Garfield

Ripe in 134 days. Large size, smooth, fine red color, solid ; light bearer, cracked in rain. Kept 7 days.

Conqueror

Ripe in 134 days. Fair size, good quality, light bearer; cracked in rain. Kept 19 days.

Extra Early Advance

Ripe in 126 days. Medium size, medium quality, wrinkled, good crop; rotted in rain. Kept 7 days.

Early Conqueror

Like Canada Victor in all respects.

Canada Victor

Ripe in 125 days. Gave a moderate crop of somewhat wrinkled fruit, of good size; rotted badly in rain. Kept 6 days.

Essex Hybrid

Ripe in 141 days. Large, smooth, solid, bright red, good crop and long continued; cracked but little in rain. Kept 7 days.

New Queen

Ripe in 130 days. Fair size, smooth and solid, fine red color, large crop, long time in bearing, cracked but little in rain. Kept 5 days.

Hathaway's Excelsior

Ripe in 128 days. Medium size, rather rough, bright red; did not rot much in rain. Kept 5 days.

Cook's Favorite

Ripe in 131 days. Good crop, smooth, fairly solid, well ripened at stem, though cracked in rain. Kept 21 days.

Jubilee

Ripe in 128 days. Large, wrinkled, yellow, very acid for its color, not equal to Golden Trophy in any way ; cracked much, and rotted in rain. Kept 5 days.

Golden Trophy

Ripe in 126 days. By far the best and most solid yellow sort grown; light yellow, with slight blush on some fruits. Kept 5 days.

Extra Early Cluster

Ripe in 124 days. Good crop, bright red, somewhat wrinkled; stood rain well. Kept 18 days.

Winter Improved Tree

Ripened with Dwarf Champion, which it resembles in growth, but gave a larger crop of fine, smooth, Acme-colored fruit; solid and good, like all the color. Did not keep well.

Finch's Essex Hybrid

This is an improvement on Essex Hybrid in bearing and size; fruit large, bright red, well ripened at stem, and solid; cracked but little in rain. Kept 19 days.

One tomato on my list deserves more than a passing notice, being so much in advance of any grown that, with the reader's indulgence and an apology for seeming to press a new or good thing, I propose to describe from facts, as I have done with the others, the Ignotum. The Ignotum ripened in 116 days from seed, and kept 18 days in the trial with the rest. It was a sport from a German variety grown by Prof. L. H. Bailey, now of the Cornell Experiment Station, and by him distributed in small lots to test. 1 was fortunate to get from him seed from which I raised twenty-three plants. It was second earliest, and should be placed at the head of the list for all purposes, family, market or canning. It is a large, bright scarlet, very solid and mealy, free from hard core, of best flavor for eating raw on table. It is a very heavy tomato, although I do not consider weight a true test of a tomato's merit. Water is heavy, and very many tomatoes when cooked are but little else than water ; but not so with this one. As soon as done it is very thick, as was proved in several instances when tested with other good kinds, and it was thicker when "done" than others were after two hours, evaporating.