color is bright red and the fruit is more attractive than pleasant.
It is'sometimes grown for pickles, but oftener as an ornament.
 2. Lycopersicum esculentum, Dum., is the species that con-
tains the varieties which include our commercial kinds.
 The following are recognized as varieties by botanists:
 A. Var. cerasiforme, the cherry-shaped tomatoes, may be at
first sight taken as a very large form of the currant tomato (L.
pimpinellifoliumn), but there are fewer fruits in a cluster and the
foliage is coarser. The color of the fruit may be either red or
yellow, the leaves are lighter colored and usually are smaller
than in the common market kinds, but the general shape is the
same. Green gage, peach and white apple belong to this variety.
 B. Var. pyriforme contains those that are more or less pear-
shaped or oblong. There are two groups: the pear-shaped and
the oblong. King Humbert and Criterion are examples.
 C. Var. vulgare. To this variety belong the different forms
 of our cultivated kinds. 1st. Angular form were the first culti-
 vated for market; they are not so popular now; they are flat and
 very irregular, making too much waste in preparing for table.
 2nd. Apple-shaped form is the one usually cultivated for market.
 There are purple, red, yellow and white members in this form,
 the red predominating.
 D. Var. grandifolium, or large-leafed tomatoes. Mikado,
 Puritan and Shah are members of this variety. They are much
 prized for home market, but are too large to make a good ship-
 ping tomato. The main difference between, these and members
 of var. vulgare is that the leaves of this variety are much larger,
 the leaflets about two pair, and the leaves of the young plants
 entire. They are mostly purple, but red and yellow ones have
 been grown.
 E. Var. validum contains the upright forms. French up-
 right or tree tomato is a representative; the fruit is red.
 Briefly expressed, we have:
 Fruit small in many berried racemes, leaves small, stems
 slender. Lycopersicum pimpinellifolium.
 Fruit larger, few in a cluster; leaves large, stems stocky.
 Lycopersicum esculentum.
 Fruit not large, globular, two-celled, red or yellow; foliage
 light colored. Var. eerasiforme.
 Fruit larger, pear-shaped or oblong; pendant, red or yellow;
 foliage dark green, coarse. Var. pyrforme.