Thank you for checking! I found it referenced in a couple of the older books on general vegetable gardening and, while others I googled came up as still available, this one seemed to have vanished.
One the results, this Cornell report (
here) says it was a "large leaf" like Mikado. Does that mean potato leafed?!?
I should go cross-reference potato leaf and pear shaped on the Tomatobase.
Oh, and I found a better description buried on page two of the results (
here).
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About a year since, the English horticultural journals published glowing descriptions, with illustrations, of a new Tomato produced from the variety which our English friends had named Vick's Criterion, which was described as "about the size and shape of a Victoria Plum, and exceeding all others in flavor and fruitfulness." It was produced by Richard Nesbit, and named Nesbit's Victoria. We have grown it this season. It is Pear-shaped, and the size and form are both shown in the engraving. The fruit is borne on immense and beautiful clusters, many having twenty specimens. The flavor is unsurpassed.
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