Tilden tomato

[stevenkh1]

Hey Gang!


The ole Tilden tomoto which is presumed extinct. Or....could it be what we know
now call a Roma? Hmmm....Carolyn? Mike? Anyone?



From the 1868 Allison & Addison Seed (Richmond, VA) catalog:

[Scooty]

Another tomato variety of note: the Tilden tomato. In 1858, Henry Tilden, of Davenport, found a dwarf tomato plant loaded with tasty tomatoes. He named it the Tilden, and Henry made $600 from the sale of those tomatoes off of one acre, or about $16,350 in today’s money which was then and now considered a great return on a farming investment.

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Tilden Tomato. This valuable variety originated with Mr. Henry Tilden, of Daven- port, Iowa. The plant is somewhat dwarf in its habit, the branches rarely reaching three feet in length, even when trained on stakes. It is good, both as an early and late variety, ripening the past season on late ground by the 10th of July, and continued bearing up to the last of October. In shape the largest fruit is uniformly oval, which is the normal form of the variety, the warty excrescences about the calyx, and which so often disfigure the fruit of other varieties, are never seen in the Tilden.

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Definitely not a roma based on the information available.

[stevenkh1]

Oh you rock!!! TY!!! Sure enough, his ad is here in the 1868 Prairie Farmer, pg 144: