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Old July 12, 2014   #21
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Originally Posted by boats1947 View Post
This novice Kentucky guy thinks that the name was meant to signify "Wins All" meaning that the tomato variety won everything concerning tomatoes that year! The word evolved into "Winsall" due to normal slang/shortcuts, and poor grammatical practices, etc!
but Jerry posted above from the Henderson catalog and it was called Winsall.

I'm going to e-mail someone I know to see if that person knows when and where the name was changed by so many to Wins All.

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