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Sam Lacona #1 (aka Lacona #1, Palermo, Sam Lacona)
From Ronald Bennett of Victor, New York via John Swenson. SSE 145 |
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Samarkand Purple (aka Persian Star)
Collected by John Swenson from a Samarkand, Uzbekistan bazaar. SSE 143 |
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Sarafini Red Italian
No provenance information is provided in the SSE seed library database. SSE 59 |
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Schultz
From Mary Schultz of Monroe, Washington. SSE 42
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Seversky Palicak (aka Seversky Palichak)
From the former Czechoslovakia. Gatersleben #ALL 133; SSE 122 |
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Shang Tung Purple
From Marcia Halligan and Steve Adams of Chrysalis farm of Viroqua, Wisconsin. SSE 263 |
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Shatili
| Variety: Purple Stripe |
Harvest Date: Early |
| Maximum Head Weight: 1.3 oz. |
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From the Khevsur village of Shatili on the Georgian border with Chechnya; via Joel Girardin. Gatersleben #K 7108. SSE 90 |
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Shvelisi (aka Chesnok Red)
Collected 1995 from Schvelisi, Achakiche Province, in southern Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 6811; SSE 101 |
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Siberian
From village in Kamchatka, Siberia, where it was obtained by fishermen bartering with peasant farmers. SSE 150
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Sicilian Gold
| Variety: Artichoke |
Harvest Date: Middle |
| Maximum Head Weight: 3.3 oz. |
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From Sicily via David Piedmonte and Darrell Merrell of Tulsa, Oklahoma. SSE 315 |
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Sicilian Silver (aka Sicilian Silverskin)
From John Swenson. SSE 128 |
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Siciliano
Obtained in 1991 by Richard Smith of Kettle Falls, Washington from a vendor at the Santa Fe, NM, farmers market who imported it from Sicily. SSE 205 |
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Silver Rose
From Greg Anthony Seed Company. SSE 190
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Silverskin
This strain perhaps originated from Nichols Garden Nursery; SSE got their starts from CV So. SSE 49 |
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Simoneti
Collected in 1982 from village of Simoneti, west of Kutaisi, Terdzola Province, Imeretia Region, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 5878; SSE 70 |
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Singing Falls
| Variety: Asiatic |
Harvest Date: Early |
| Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. |
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Brought to Tiller, Oregon in the 1950s by Glann Rogers of Missouri who raised an organic garden until his death in the 1970s; via Avram Drucker; SSE 324 |
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Skuri #1
Collected in 1983 from village of Skuri, NE of Zugdidi, Megrelien Province, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gaterleben #K 6037; SSE 71 |
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Skuri #2
Collected in 1983 from village of Skuri, NE of Zugdidi, Megrelien Province, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gaterleben #K 6038; SSE 103 |
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Spanish Morado (aka Morado de Pedronera)
| Variety: Creole |
Harvest Date: Late |
| Maximum Head Weight: 1.7 oz. |
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From Andalusia, Spain via R. Hannan; this is simply Morado de Pedronera as renamed by Filaree Farm; SSE 280 |
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Spanish Red
From Steve Beckwitt, North San Juan California in 1984 via David Cavagnaro. USDA PI 540360??; SSE 163
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Spanish Roja
Northwestern heirloom variety traceable to Portland, Oregon in the 1930s, via William Ross of the Good Seed Co., Tonasket, Washington. SSE 52 |
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Special Idaho
| Variety: Rocambole |
Harvest Date: Middle |
| Maximum Head Weight: 3 oz. |
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From Seeds Blum; SSE 316 |
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St. Helen
Family heirloom from western Washington via Ron Engeland. SSE 104 |
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Stanley Crawford's New Mexico Rocambole (aka Dixon, Mew Mexico Rocambole)
Rescued by author Stanley Crawford from nearby orchard in Dixon, New Mexico, where it had naturalized and written about in his book, A Garlic Testament. SSE 264 |
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Sturgeon Creole
Bought in May 2006 from Econo Foods in Surgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The produce manager did not know its origin. We initially thought this was a Creole strain until growing it out; we still don't know exactly where this fits. |
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Sukhumi
From Republic of Georgia via Filaree Farms. SSE 119 |
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Summit Roja (aka Garlic Smith Strain Spanish Roja)
| Variety: Rocambole |
Harvest Date: Middle |
| Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. |
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Stevens County, Washington strain of Spanish Roja, obtained in 1996 from local gardener by Richard Smith of Kettle Falls, Washington; SSE 335 |
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Susan Marie
| Variety: Porcelain |
Harvest Date: Early |
| Maximum Head Weight: 2.2 oz. |
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Joel Girardin obtained this from Art Prinsen, who got it from a woman named Susan Marie who had an herb business at Buffalo, Minnesota. She said that she got it from a local farmer who called it a German hardneck. |
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Syrian
| Variety: Middle Eastern |
Harvest Date: Very Early |
| Maximum Head Weight: 0.4 oz. |
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Collected by Dr. Walter Kaiser on April 1992 at a large bazaar in Aleppo, Syria; via Avram Drucker. USDA W6 10472. |
