ved from different reliable sources, and recommended as being
strictly true, produced plants and fruit in no respects distinguishable
from the Perfected.

FIG-TOMATO.

Red Pear-shaped Tomato.

[Illustration: Fig-tomato.]

A small, red, pyriform or pear-shaped sort, measuring from an inch and a
quarter to an inch and a half in length, and nearly an inch in its
broadest diameter. Flesh pale-red, or pink, very solid and compact, and
generally completely filling the centre of the fruit.

Like the Plum-tomato, it is remarkably uniform in size, and also in
shape; but it is little used except for preserving,--other larger
varieties being considered more economical for stewing, making catchup,
and like purposes.

The variety is usually employed for making tomato-figs, which are thus
prepared:--

"Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, in order to remove the skin;
after which, weigh, and place in a stone jar, with as much sugar as
tomatoes, and let them stand two days; then pour off the sirup, and boil
and skim it till no scum rises; pour it over the tomatoes, and let them
stand two days as before; then boil, and skim again. After the third
time, they are fit to dry, if the weather is good; if not, let them
stand in the sirup until drying weather. Then place them on large
earthen plates, or dishes, and put them in the sun to dry, which will
take about a week; after which, pack them down in small wooden boxes,
with fine, white sugar between every layer. Tomatoes prepared in this
manner will keep for years."--_Mrs. Eliza Marsh, in Hov. Mag._

GIANT TOMATO. _Hov. Mag._

Mammoth.

An improved variety of the Common Large Red, attaining a much larger
size. Fruit comparatively solid, bright-red, sometimes smooth, but
generally ribbed, and often exceedingly irregular; some of the larger
specimens seemingly composed of two or more united together. The fruit
is frequently produced in masses or large clusters, which clasp about
the stem, and rest so closely in the axils of the branches as to admit
of being detached only by the rending asunder of the fruit itself; flesh
pale-pink, and well flavored.

Like most of the other varieties, the amount of product is in a great
degree dependent on soil, culture, and season. Under favorable
conditions, twenty-five pounds to a single plant is not an unusual
yield; single specimens of the fruit sometimes weighing four and even
five or six pounds.

The Giant Tomato is not early, and,