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**carolyn137** · April 1, 2017

(Eva's purple Ball from trade last year is 1/8.)

I don't want to be accused of being picky here BUT if I could find the person who first added the apostrophe to the first word, we could have,well,an intersting talk, I'm sure.

Here is the real name that Joe Bratka gave it.

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Eva_Purple_Ball

There were three family heirlooms that Joe's parents brought to the US when they came to the US.

Marizol Gold
Marizol Purple
Eva Purple Ball.

The word Marizol is a contraction of what the variety was known as in Germany, as in Maria's Zell, meaning Maria's village which was and is in the Black Forest in Germany. I found out that from a German lady I was teaching at the time.

It was Joe's father who bred the very popular ones

Mule Team
Box Car Willie
Red Barn
Great Divide
Lady Luck
Pasture

After his parents died Joe had the house and when he looked in the tool shed he saw glass bottles with seeds and a note saying what his father had named them. He couldn't germinate them so sent the seeds to me.I was able to germinate the ones listed but there were 4 others I could not germinate at all,I always wondered what they would have been like, and all I can remember is that one had the word meadow.

Yes,I knew Joe very well, he died a few years ago.

But before that he decided that if folks really wanted heirloom varieties he would breed them,he did,and gave them fictious backgrounds.I was really mad when he was offering something called Purple Brandywine, there is no such variety,he knew it as well. And I convinced him to call it Marizol Bratka,since Marizol Purple was one of the parents.

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Marizol_Bratka

The problem was that Joe had already distributed seeds he named Purple Brandywine which has caused much confusion..

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to go back quite a few years to events of the past.

Carolyn, who almost forgot to say that Joe had many other varieties on his list that had nothing to do with his family, I can only remember one right now

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Brianna

He participated in seed offerings and trades with two magazines,who had those sections back then,they were National Gardening and Organic Gardening.

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carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	(Eva's purple Ball from trade last year is 1/8.) I don't want to be accused of being picky here BUT if I could find the person who first added the apostrophe to the first word, we could have,well,an intersting talk, I'm sure. Here is the real name that Joe Bratka gave it. http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Eva_Purple_Ball There were three family heirlooms that Joe's parents brought to the US when they came to the US. Marizol Gold Marizol Purple Eva Purple Ball. The word Marizol is a contraction of what the variety was known as in Germany, as in Maria's Zell, meaning Maria's village which was and is in the Black Forest in Germany. I found out that from a German lady I was teaching at the time. It was Joe's father who bred the very popular ones Mule Team Box Car Willie Red Barn Great Divide Lady Luck Pasture After his parents died Joe had the house and when he looked in the tool shed he saw glass bottles with seeds and a note saying what his father had named them. He couldn't germinate them so sent the seeds to me.I was able to germinate the ones listed but there were 4 others I could not germinate at all,I always wondered what they would have been like, and all I can remember is that one had the word meadow. Yes,I knew Joe very well, he died a few years ago. But before that he decided that if folks really wanted heirloom varieties he would breed them,he did,and gave them fictious backgrounds.I was really mad when he was offering something called Purple Brandywine, there is no such variety,he knew it as well. And I convinced him to call it Marizol Bratka,since Marizol Purple was one of the parents. http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Marizol_Bratka The problem was that Joe had already distributed seeds he named Purple Brandywine which has caused much confusion.. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to go back quite a few years to events of the past. Carolyn, who almost forgot to say that Joe had many other varieties on his list that had nothing to do with his family, I can only remember one right now http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Brianna He participated in seed offerings and trades with two magazines,who had those sections back then,they were National Gardening and Organic Gardening. __________________ Carolyn