A Tomato Mutant

In the summer of 1921 I paid a visit to Mr. A. Vergeer the dean of Wognum, who had won a new variety of tomatoes with exceedingly big fruits and „undivided” leaves of which he had sent a sample to Wageningen. It had arisen in his Alice Roosevelt as one single plant. The term undivided” for the leaves was highly exaggerated as the leaf really is a compound one, but in fact the leaflets are less incised than those of the common types or sometimes even not at all. Only the first leaf of the seedlings might be called so. Dean Vergeer has been kind enough to send me some seeds both of his Alice Roosevelt and his new type (after 1923 indicated as ,,Deken Vergeer”) together with some of the Westlandia type also cultivated by him.