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TOMATO, Lycopersicum esculentum (Nat. Ord. Solanaceae), a tender annual, native of South America, probably Peru. The fruit is much esteemed in salads and as a vegetable. Efforts have been made to popularize it for dessert, with varying success. Plants intended ...

TOM-TOM, or TAM-TAM, a native Indian and Asiatic word, reduplicated and onomatopoeic .in form, for a drum, hence often loosely applied to the various types of primitive drum used for purposes of religious excitement, war, signalling, &c., by savage tribes thro

THOMA, HANS (1839- ), German painter, was born at Bernau in the Black Forest. Having started life as a painter of clock-faces, he entered in 1859 the Carlsruhe academy, where he studied under Schirmer and Des Coudres. He subsequently studied and worked, with b

TOKAT (Armenian Evtoghia, anc. Dazimon) the chief town of a sanjak of the same name in the Sivas vilayet of Asia Minor. It is situated in the Sivas-Samsun chauste, altitude 2280 ft., at the mouth of a rocky glen which opens out to the broad valley of the Tozan

TOMPA. MIHALY [MICHAEL] (1817-1868), Hungarian lyric poet, was born in 1817 at Rima-Szombat,in the county of Gomor, his father being village bootmaker. He studied law and theology in Saros-Patak, and subsequently at Budapest; and, after many vicissitudes, at t

... vegetables in 1899 was as follows: water-melons, 620,440; musk-melons, 516,500; tomatoes, 254,052 bu.; cabbages, 997,690 heads, and sweet corn, 16,192 bu. For the important sugarbeet crop, see below under Manufactures. On Gunnison and Hat islands in Great Salt ...