Special Strain Earliana

JerryL · July 19, 2011

I found another old catalog. This one is a 1935 Templin-Bradley’s Garden Guide. The listing for a ‘Special Strain Earliana’ caught my eye. Anyone know anything about it?

travis · July 19, 2011

Very interesting, Jerry.

Here is another sales pitch for a "special strain" of Earliana:

"(Herbert P. Langdon & Son) have developed a particularly early and fine tomato, called the Langdon Strain of Earlianas, from the most carefully selected specimens of which they put up large quantities of seeds for sale to seedsmen. For the choicest of these seeds they have no difficulty in disposing of all they raise at five dollars per ounce, with other grades selling at varying figures down to sixty cents per ounce." http://franklinhistorian.blogspot.co...-tomatoes.html

**carolyn137** · July 19, 2011

When I get around to it I'll get out my 1939 Michigan Bulletin and share with you all the names that were associated with Earliana and modifications thereof.

Back then a company would claim something special about a variety to hopefully distinguish it from another company's offering and so lots of versions were afoot back then.

Carolyn

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JerryL Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: S.W. Ohio z6a Posts: 736	Special Strain Earliana I found another old catalog. This one is a 1935 Templin-Bradley’s Garden Guide. The listing for a ‘Special Strain Earliana’ caught my eye. Anyone know anything about it? __________________ Jerry

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carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	When I get around to it I'll get out my 1939 Michigan Bulletin and share with you all the names that were associated with Earliana and modifications thereof. Back then a company would claim something special about a variety to hopefully distinguish it from another company's offering and so lots of versions were afoot back then. Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

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travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Very interesting, Jerry. Here is another sales pitch for a "special strain" of Earliana: "(Herbert P. Langdon & Son) have developed a particularly early and fine tomato, called the Langdon Strain of Earlianas, from the most carefully selected specimens of which they put up large quantities of seeds for sale to seedsmen. For the choicest of these seeds they have no difficulty in disposing of all they raise at five dollars per ounce, with other grades selling at varying figures down to sixty cents per ounce." http://franklinhistorian.blogspot.co...-tomatoes.html