New Tomato Plant Developed
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
in Western Samoa
ANEW dwarf hybrid tomato of real merit has been produced by Mr. H.
C. Reed, a local horticulturist, according to the “Western Samoa Mail”.
The fruit is attractive in shape, being round, solid and firm, and having prac tically no “core”. The hybrid is a cross of two distinct varieties of Australian and American tomatoes, and the method used was the Burbank flower-graft.
The new tomato should prove a boon to planters in the tropics who require a quality fruit borne on dwarf plants,
which require neither pruning nor stak ing, and which mature a crop of splen did tomatoes in the short space of 12 weeks.
Owing to the increased demands on the Port Moresby Telephone Service, annual rental has been increased from £5/5/- to £7 10/-. This service is operated entirely by trained Papuan natives.