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Sam Lacona #1 (aka Lacona #1, Palermo, Sam Lacona)

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Ronald Bennett of Victor, New York via John Swenson. SSE 145

Samarkand Purple (aka Persian Star)

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected by John Swenson from a Samarkand, Uzbekistan bazaar. SSE 143

Sarafini Red Italian

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.2 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

No provenance information is provided in the SSE seed library database. SSE 59

Schultz

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Mary Schultz of Monroe, Washington. SSE 42

Seversky Palicak (aka Seversky Palichak)

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.2 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From the former Czechoslovakia. Gatersleben #ALL 133; SSE 122

Shang Tung Purple

Variety: Turban Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.7 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Marcia Halligan and Steve Adams of Chrysalis farm of Viroqua, Wisconsin. SSE 263

Shatili

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.3 oz.  

From the Khevsur village of Shatili on the Georgian border with Chechnya; via Joel Girardin. Gatersleben #K 7108. SSE 90

Shvelisi (aka Chesnok Red)

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected 1995 from Schvelisi, Achakiche Province, in southern Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 6811; SSE 101

Siberian

Variety: Marbled Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.7 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From village in Kamchatka, Siberia, where it was obtained by fishermen bartering with peasant farmers. SSE 150

Sicilian Gold

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 3.3 oz. 2007 Picture

From Sicily via David Piedmonte and Darrell Merrell of Tulsa, Oklahoma. SSE 315

Sicilian Silver (aka Sicilian Silverskin)

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From John Swenson. SSE 128

Siciliano

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.8 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Obtained in 1991 by Richard Smith of Kettle Falls, Washington from a vendor at the Santa Fe, NM, farmers market who imported it from Sicily. SSE 205

Silver Rose

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 2.2 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Greg Anthony Seed Company. SSE 190

Silverskin

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 0.7 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

This strain perhaps originated from Nichols Garden Nursery; SSE got their starts from CV So. SSE 49

Simoneti

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.6 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected in 1982 from village of Simoneti, west of Kutaisi, Terdzola Province, Imeretia Region, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gatersleben #K 5878; SSE 70

Singing Falls

Variety: Asiatic Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.5 oz. 2007 Picture

Brought to Tiller, Oregon in the 1950s by Glann Rogers of Missouri who raised an organic garden until his death in the 1970s; via Avram Drucker; SSE 324

Skuri #1

Variety: Artichoke Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 2.1 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected in 1983 from village of Skuri, NE of Zugdidi, Megrelien Province, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gaterleben #K 6037; SSE 71

Skuri #2

Variety: Purple Stripe Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Collected in 1983 from village of Skuri, NE of Zugdidi, Megrelien Province, Republic of Georgia, via John Swenson. Gaterleben #K 6038; SSE 103

Spanish Morado (aka Morado de Pedronera)

Variety: Creole Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.7 oz. 2007 Picture

From Andalusia, Spain via R. Hannan; this is simply Morado de Pedronera as renamed by Filaree Farm; SSE 280

Spanish Red

Variety: Creole Harvest Date: Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Steve Beckwitt, North San Juan California in 1984 via David Cavagnaro. USDA PI 540360??; SSE 163

Spanish Roja

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Northwestern heirloom variety traceable to Portland, Oregon in the 1930s, via William Ross of the Good Seed Co., Tonasket, Washington. SSE 52

Special Idaho

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 3 oz. 2007 Picture

From Seeds Blum; SSE 316

St. Helen

Variety: Silverskin Harvest Date: Very Late
Maximum Head Weight: 1.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Family heirloom from western Washington via Ron Engeland. SSE 104

Stanley Crawford's New Mexico Rocambole (aka Dixon, Mew Mexico Rocambole)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 0.8 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Rescued by author Stanley Crawford from nearby orchard in Dixon, New Mexico, where it had naturalized and written about in his book, A Garlic Testament. SSE 264

Sturgeon Creole

Variety: Middle Eastern? Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

Bought in May 2006 from Econo Foods in Surgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The produce manager did not know its origin. We initially thought this was a Creole strain until growing it out; we still don't know exactly where this fits.

Sukhumi

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.0 oz. 2006 Picture 2007 Picture

From Republic of Georgia via Filaree Farms. SSE 119

Summit Roja (aka Garlic Smith Strain Spanish Roja)

Variety: Rocambole Harvest Date: Middle
Maximum Head Weight: 1.4 oz. 2007 Picture

Stevens County, Washington strain of Spanish Roja, obtained in 1996 from local gardener by Richard Smith of Kettle Falls, Washington; SSE 335

Susan Marie

Variety: Porcelain Harvest Date: Early
Maximum Head Weight: 2.2 oz.

Joel Girardin obtained this from Art Prinsen, who got it from a woman named Susan Marie who had an herb business at Buffalo, Minnesota. She said that she got it from a local farmer who called it a German hardneck.

Syrian

Variety: Middle Eastern Harvest Date: Very Early
Maximum Head Weight: 0.4 oz.

Collected by Dr. Walter Kaiser on April 1992 at a large bazaar in Aleppo, Syria; via Avram Drucker. USDA W6 10472.

 
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