View Single Post
Old November 13, 2012   #9
JLJ_
Tomatovillian™
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Wyoming
Posts: 759
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by carolyn137 View Post
. . . Above is a link to a thread about Mortgage Lifters here at Tville. I don't see any conflict at all between the Estler one and the Radiator Charlie one. . . There may be another thread . . . but all of them would have said the same as the above one, that is, the Estler one came several years before the Charlie Byles one.

Not all . . .

http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=3678

Whether the alleged 1922 date for the Estler's Mortgage Lifter was the reason for Jeff McCormack's doubts I don't know -- but there is surely a problem with a 1922 date for the origin of a tomato that is a descendant of a 1932 tomato (Pritchard)?
JLJ_ is offline   Reply With Quote