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Carmello
Smooth, round, 2-3" fruits.
WI PE C 90
CV Shepard's 88; French commercial variety.
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Caspian Pink
4½" deep pink, rough, meaty, fruits; excellent
flavor; potato-leaf plants.
TN JO M 00
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Cerise Orange
Heavy set of .75" diameter yellow-orange cherry tomatoes;
sweet; leaves not heavily divided.
WI MI B 96
Originally from Norbert Parreira, Helliner, France, 1992.
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Cherokee Chocolate
4", smooth, dark brown-purple fruits; excellent flavor
Developed by Craig
Lehoullier, Raleigh, North Carolina
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Cherokee Green
4-5", smooth fruits, light green on inside, yellow green
outside when ripe; excellent spicy-sweet flavor.
Developed by Craig
Lehoullier, Raleigh, North Carolina
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Cherokee Purple,
Potato Leaf
4-5", flattened, smooth, dark purple fruits on potato-leaved
plants.
MO GE J 98
Jeremiath Gettle, Mansfield, MO
Developed from potato leaf plant in 1995.
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Cherry Roma
One of my 1999 favorites; enormous set of 1x.75" plum-shaped
fruits; thick flesh; addictive sweet-spicy flavor; great dried
or fresh; may be the best red cherry I've ever grown.
MD MO M 99
Meilie Moy-Hodnett, Rockville, MD
From caterer source.
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Chersonskij-1
Heavy, early set of 2-3" smooth, round fruits on short,
determinate plants; early maturation.
IA SSE HF 97- IPK
SSE Tomato 3391
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Chiapas Wild
Heavy set of .5" diameter, round fruits; very rich,
sweet flavor; excellent for salads; fruits tend to fall from
plant as they ripen; wild progenitor of cultivated tomatoes;
from the Mexican tropics.
KS CR T 97 - CV Na2
Wild Tomato from jungles of Chiapas.
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Coracao de Boi
2-4" pink, solid ox-heart fruits on 3½' vines;
bore heavily but readily cracked.
Seeds obtained January 1994 in Oporto, Portugal near the
port wine bodegas on the Rio Douro. Also available (LQ) seeds
from original packet.
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Costoluto Fiorentino
3½" moderately flattened red spheres; fairly
meaty; heavy production; good for canning.
CV Fothergills; from garden store in the Somerset Bottoms
west of Glastonbury, June 1998; Italian heirloom from Tuscany.
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Coursen Roy's
Stuffing Tomato
3-4" very light red to orange tri-lobed hollow fruits
on rank 5½' vines; very productive; quite similar to
Liberty Bell.
NJ CA J 96
Family heirloom of Coursen Ray, the largest grower of the
famous Luther Hill heirloom corn.
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Craig's Potato Leaf
Irregular 3-5" diameter, meaty fruits; low production;
odd wispy potato-shaped leaves; stabilized cross with Bisignano.
IL LO N 98 - MI FL J 97 - NC
LE C 91
Craig Lehoullier
Accidental variant of Bisignano #2.
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Csikos Botermo
1½", round, red and orange striped fruits in gorgeous
clusters of 5 or more; heavy production; reminiscent of Tigerella
but clusters prettier.
IL LO N 98
From AUSL LA R 96 via WI MI B 97
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Czech Tomato
4-6" rough, meaty, tart fruits on vigorous 5' potato
leaf plants; meaty but very susceptible to rot; mine were
definitely pink and not red; 100 year-old Nebraska heirloom
from Czech immigrants.
NE BU W 95
Walter E. Baumgarner, Arcadia, NE
Has been in a Czech family in eastern NE for decades, maybe
100 years.
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Czech Yellow
Heavy set of 2" diameter, smooth, bright yellow globes;
perhaps 50% of fruits had pink centers, and appeared essentially
identical to Pink Grapefruit, though plants more vigorous.
CA BL D 97 - SSE Campout 1989 ... (?) IL GR R 79
Mrs. Gladys Granke, Chicago, IL
This may (?) be traced to Ben Quisenberry's Czech's Excel
Yellow recieved by Jerry Knesel, Quartz Hill, CA in 1975.
Ben ran Big Tomato Gardens out of an old Post Office in Syracuse,
NY, until 96 years old.
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Czechoslovakian
4"x3" meaty, incredibly rich-sweet tasting paste
tomato on 3½' vines which bear heavily and refuse to
crack; one of my top 5 tomatoes. O.S. Margaret Wyda, Bloomsburg
PA.
PA EL B 94
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