Tomato Culture for Amateurs - A Guide to Its Successful Cultivation Under Glass and in the Open Air #250687

It seems to be uncertain at what date the Tomato was introduced into this country; but an old number of the Transactions of the Horti cultural Society mentions that some plants grown in 1818 averaged about zolb. Of fruit per plant, and some as much as 4olb., so that its cultivation in this country probably dates from the latter part of the eighteenth century.