I got a chuckle out of the NC bulletin 1888 (3rd picture) of D.'s posting which described the tomato Station Tree as " about as worthless as anything in the shape of a tomato can be. Our plants grew from 6 inches to a foot high, growing more like mammoth lichens than anything else."
Sounds like reject from the Dwarf project!
Would be interesting to find out when and where the parent lines of the tree type or dwarfs first are mentioned in the literature and if they were associated with a particular breeder or experiment station.