Show love LOT apple appl thomas jefferson recorded the growing of tomatoes in virginia in 1781 yet it Is said gald that an italian could not persuade the people of salem mass to taste the tomato in 1802 but the love apple or gold apple of the soon oon after began to appear us as a market vegetable in the early part of the eighteenth century the tomato was a subject of general field culture in italy and it la Is to the people of that country that we must accord its highest and earliest appreciation |