Childs' Resplendent Tomato - Lutescent tomatoes' cousin?

[peispud]

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Photos from:
John Lewis Child's Spring Catalog of Seeds, Bulbs, and Plants for 1913 page 12.

Child's Resplendent Tomato

Fruit of many different colors from light green (when
very small) to white, lemon, pink, orange and yellow, to
deep ruby-red, borne on the same plant at the same time in
wonderful abundance. A plant in fruit is strikingly beauti-
ful.Each fruit goes through several changes of color before
it is ripe and red. Large, very solid with less seed and seed
cavity than any other Tomato. It is one of the richest
meatiest and best-flavored Tomatoes we have ever tested.
Growth stout, upright branching (of the tree form)
with distinct, wide Potato-like foilage of a deep emerald
green. In growth and foilage it is as noval and dis-
tinct as its marvelous fruit, entirely unlike and other
variety in nearly every respect. It was orginated by E.C.
Green,Medina, Ohio, a Tomato specialist, who has origi-
nated many of the best varieties in cultivation. The entire
stock and full control has been turned over to us for intro-
duction.
SEED, 10C per pkt,; 3 pkts., for 25c. With every packet
of seed we send a booklet of over 100 receipts for using and
cooking Tomatoes. This will be of great value to the
housewife.
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Childs' Resplendent Tomato - The Tomato of Many Colors

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Found this while doing a wee bit of tomato research while nursing a bad flu.
Anyone know anything about "E.C. Green, of Medina, Ohio" mentioned in this catalog blurb? I couldn't
find this variety listed anywhere's else yet but will keep looking in old catalogs.
I can send you the photos of the page if you wish Craig,
I had to edit to place them here. This seems to be a PL version
of Lutescent variety with tree-like growth and mutli-colored fruit.
Emerald-green foilage and no mention of yellow foilage. Maybe
Lutescent was a sport of Resplendent and Resplendent came from
Honor Bright??

Peter


Other misc: (varieties listed in an 1876 catalog)
Golden Trophy, Green Gage, Tomato de Laye, Blue Plum,
Cedar Hill, Valencia Cluster, Conqueror, Lyman's Mammoth
Cluster, English Grape Shot.

[tomatoaddict]

Hey Peter, that's where I live. Medina County. I will have to check on this.

[nctomatoman]

Childs certainly did have some odd varieties - I noted Resplendent years ago, and it is probably a mutation similar to that which created Honor Bright (Livingston's variety that seems similar to what we know of today as Honor Bright). (I also think that the catalog took some liberties with exaggeration - just like some of today's catalogs do!). In the early 1900s, Livingston released a number of outcrosses from Honor Bright that produced dwarf or normal, potato leaf or regular leaf, red or pink ripening fruit - they must not have been very stable, since they didn't last in the catalogs for more than a year or two...and they all appear to be lost. (they can be found at the Victory web site, Livingston page - names like Dandy Dwarf, Grandus, Princess, etc).