Prof.  P.  H.  Rolfs,  Director  of  the  Florida  experi-
ment station,  reports  that  among  the  millions  of  volun-
teer, or  wild,  tomatoes  he  has  seen  growing  in  the
abandoned  tomato  fields  in  Florida,  he  has  never  seen
a  plant  with  fruit  which  could  not  be  easily  distin-
guished from  that  of  the  true  Cherry  tomato.  Again,
one  can,  by  selection  and  cultivation,  easHy  develop
from  these  wild  forms  plants  producing  fruit  as  large
and  often  practically  identical  with,  that  of  our  cul-
tivated varieties,  while  I  have  given  a  true  stock  of
Cherry  tomato  most  careful  cultivation  on  the  best
of  soil  for  20  consecutive  generations  without  any
increase  in  size  or  change  in  character  of  the  fruit.
Pear  (not  Plum)  tomato  (L.  pyriforme)  (Fig.  7).
— Plant  exceptionally  vigorous,  with  comparatively  few
long,  stout  stems  inclined  to  ascend.  Leaves  numerous,


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broad,  flat,  with  a  distinct  bluish-green  color  noticeable,
even  in  the  cotyledons.  Fruit  abundant,  borne  in  short
branched  or  straight  clusters  of  five  to  ten  fruits.  It
is  perfectly  smooth,  without  sutures,  and  of  the  shape
of  a  long,  slender-necked  pear,  not  over  an  inch  in
transverse  by  il/z  inches  in  longitudinal  diameter.
