Looking at my 1991 SSE YEarbook I see 3 listings for it.
One says an 1800's heirloom and seed source was The Tomato Seed Co in 86( now defunct, was in Metuchen, NJ) via another SSE member and the accession number is 42 which means it entered SSE in perhaps the very first year, which was 1975.
The second person cites Gleckler's in 1986 as his source.
The third person just says 4.5 " and that's Thane Erle and that's the way he descirbed almost everything he listed. Sigh.
One problem is that thru the years some have listed is as a red, but most list it as a pink.
With regard to some I listed above, like the penetentiary one, I'm sure they're obsolate by now. I had searched my older Yearbooks for some of them but back then SSE wasn't sending money to folks to pay for a lister to send in seeds for a new variety listed, so no doubt many of those died when the person died or got too old to garden and never passed along the seeds to someone else.
Carolyn
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