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Ramillete
Heavy set of 2½" globes that have a strange pastel pink-yellow
skin, but that are screaming papaya pink-orange on the inside;
very attractive in tomato salads; beautiful and strange; plants
semi-determinate with rugose leaves.
ENGL PA U 00
From the Island of Mallorica of the Mediterranean coast of
Spain.
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Red Bird Valiant
Moderate set of 3" diameter, smooth fruits.
WI PE C 87- CV Henry Field 85
If same as the yearbook listing for Valiant, introduced in
1937, adapted to northern US and Canada. A 'Red Bird' was
last commercially listed in 1994 by Henry Field Seed Co.
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Red Fig
1.5" pear-shaped fruits; almost indistinguishable from Red
Pear, though perhaps slightly more meaty.
NJ CA J 96 - PA WE W 95 - OR MA R 93
Russell Marcus, Pleasant Hill, OR.
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Red Peach
1½-2" round, red fruits covered with white fuzz on 4½' vines
with densely white-hairy leaves; rich-sweet flavor typical
of Russian varieties; best tasting 'Angora' type I've grown;
very attractive.
IA SSE HF 96 - RUSS DA M
From Marina Danilenko, one of the first private Russian
seed sellers in the Peristrioka era.
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Red Pear
1" pear-shaped sweet and juicy fruits on 4½' vines; produced
fruit from early season to frost; perfect snack while weeding
garden.
Seed originally liberated from Fearrington Gardens along
Haw River between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro, N.C.
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Red Robin
Clusters of 1" diameter red cherry fruits on 6-8" tall plant;
heavy producer and excellent as a potted plant; determinate
ENGL PA U 00
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Reisetomate
Just when you think you've seen it all, a variety like this
comes along and knocks you in the head; the fruit is essentially
a cluster of 7-14 1¼" plum-shaped cherry tomatoes fused together
at the top into a single warty fruit; individual fruitlets
can be easily twisted off and eaten singly; trust me, this
will be the conversation piece of your garden.
ENGL PA U 00
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Richardson Tomato
Huge 5" diameter smooth dark pink fruits; very meaty with
excellent flavor.
TN JO M 00
From Bob Anderson, grown by the Richardson family in Tennessee
for many years.
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Riverside
Heavy set of 3" diameter, round red fruits; good flavor.
NJ CA J 98
Seed from Riverside Farm & Greenhouses, Mt. Bethel, PA, plant
grew out of the floor of one of their greenhouses where they
weren't growing tomatoes, not known how it got there.
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Roman Candle
Spectacular 4x2", smooth, sausage-shaped fruits with screaming
yellow skin and white-yellow flesh; very meaty with nice flavor;
this is the only pure-yellow sausage-shaped paste tomato I've
ever encountered; this variety appeared in the F2 generation
of the Speckled Roman tomato offered by John Swenson in the
1999 Yearbook, which itself was a hybrid between Banana Legs
and Antique Roman.
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Ropreco
Very heavy set of 2½" plum fruits that end in a pronounced
point; meaty; good for canning and drying; determinate
IL SW J 00
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Rose de Berne
2-3" smooth bright pink globes on rank 6' plants; sweet and
rather seedy; soft fruit with very thin skin
Seed purchased January 1994 from seed seller near Cathedral
in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Roughwood Golden Plum
2.5-3", meaty, orange paste tomatoes on small plants.
IL LO N 97 - PA WE W 96
William Woys Weaver, Devon, PA 19333
Cross of Yellow Brandywine x San Marzano.
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Royal Chico
2.5"x2" meaty and dry paste tomatoes on short plants.
WI PE C 92
Original source was CV Gurney's 18 sources in 1981, only
5 remain in 1998.
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Russian Apple Tree
Heavy set of 1½" diameter red round fruits on plants with
potato-shaped leaves; good drier.
MO DO D 98 SSE TOMATO #2730
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Russian Black
2" dark purple-brown oval fruits on 4' vines; very good flavor
but very susceptible to cracking and rot; do not know exact
cultivar name
Seeds given to me by Dennis Schlicht of Center Point Iowa,
who received them from a friend in Oregon.
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