Its Varieties

There are many varieties of the tomato, all possesing [possessing] nearly the same virtues, the red, however are more acid than the yellow. Professor Rafinesque, late of the Transylvania University, in a letter dated Philadelphia December 2, A. D. 1835, has furnished me with the following, to wit: 1st. Aurea depressa-yellow flattened smooth fruit. 2nd. Aurea torulosa-yellow lobed fruit. 3rd. Aurea Sphericia-yellow globular fruit. 4th. Aurea Microcarpa-small yellow round fruit. 5th. Aurea Difformis-large lobed difformed [deformed]. 6th. Vera depressa-red flattened fruit, not lobed. 7th. Vera Globosa-red spherical fruit. 8th. Vera torulosa-common red multilobed fruit. 9th. Vera difformis-lobes unequal, multiform fruit. 10th. Vera prolifera-red multilobe, with very extended procumbent branches, and much fruit. There are several other varieties, some of which are deemed species, as 11th.. Lycopersicum villosum, decandria solanum, pseudo lycopersicum-differ only by pubescent fruit, and racemes simple. 12th. Lycopersicum ceratiforme-differs by racem as elongate, with much small fruit like cherries of grapes-procumbent plant. 13th. Lycopersicum Peruvianum-and 14th. Lycopersicum fugax-are two other species of the genus, but quite distinct. The above enumeration comprehends all the princapal [principal] varieties of the tomato in common use; and, in fact all that need be cultivated for the various purposes to which it is applied for the full consumation [consummation] of the most desirable results.