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Excerpt from The Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. 22: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects; July to December, 1897
When the Queen came to the throne, this vegetable fruit, if such it may be termed, was known almost exclusively as the Love Apple, and, but one variety, the old Cor rugatedred, wasgrown. Theculturewas usually against warm walls, and somewhat rough, the side shoots being nailed in and not pinched out as now. For many years Tomato culture was stagnant, the great merits of the fruit product not being recog nised. Now all is changed, but glasshouses have done most to bring about this change, Varieties have increased by scores, and literally towns of glass-houses are devoted to their culture. In no direction, probably, has there been seen such marvellous development in any one product as the Tomato presents. It is a vegetable that will in gardening or in market industry he more signally identified with the Queen's long reign than any other. Varieties now seem to be in every respect perfect. 80, too, in culture, but as to extent, that cannot have been reached. Really, culture and con sumption may be regarded as illimitable.
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