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Kellogg's Breakfast

4-6" smooth, slightly oblong meaty pale orange-fleshed fruits on 4' vines; very good flavor; productive late in season.

NY MA C 96 -- WI MI B 93

From Darrell Kellogg, Redford, MI.

Kelsey Yellow Roma

Much like De Barrao Gold, but with lighter yellow, narrower 2" juicy fruits; excellent fruity flavor; excellent drier; one of my 1998 favorites.

Will Barnard, Kelsey, CA

Possible insect cross of Martino's Roma and Lillian's Yellow Heirloom.

King Umberto

Gorgeous and delicious 1¼" pink, pear shaped fruits that are the same shape and size of Kalamata olives; one of my favorite cherry tomatoes.

IL SW J 00

Originally from Deborah Crowe of Reelsville, Indiana.

Kornesevsije

5"+, rough, flattened, meaty fruits.

UT DR S 96 - NY MA C 93

From Norbert Parreira, France

LaCarotina

2½" diameter flattened spheres that are carrot-orange on the outside but with a pink-red interior.

ENGL PA U 00

Lahman Pink

3.5" smooth fruits.

IL LO N 97 - MO MO A 95 (93)

Family heirloom from NGA member Grace Lahman, Fairview, MO.

Lee

Heavy set of 2½-3" diameter round fruits with pronounced nipple at end; good flavor; semi-determinate.

MD WY C 98 - WI MI B 96 - NJ BR J 92

A tomato by this name is mentioned in accounts of the Civil War battle of Antietam, but it's not known if this is that variety. If so, the tomato originated from the Lee Estate, and after the war seeds were distributed throughout Virginia. A full account is given by W. Roy Mason (Major, C.S.A.) in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Part #11, 1884 (see SSE's 1st Decade book, pages 159-161).

Liberty Bell

3-4" hollow tri-lobed pale orange-red fruits on productive 4' vines; fruits look exactly like a bell pepper.

CV Glecklers 1994

Linosa

1½x2" plum-shaped fruits; thick flesh; indeterminant plants that bare heavily until frost; excellent for drying.

from Ulrike Paradine, Kent, England

Little Lucky

3-4" smooth, orange fruits with red starburst in interior flesh; potato-leaved plants; great sweet flavor

developed by Craig LeHoullier, Raleigh, North Carolina

Locke

2½" round fruits; plant compact with leaves that are clustered next to stem making a columnar growth form; very unusual and great for patios. Craig LeHoullier suggests that this may be the old Gleckler's variety named 'Stick.' Click here to see its description and picture from their 1958 catelogue.

from Reinhard Kraft, Neukirchen, Germany

Lynnwood

3" diameter smooth, red spheres; moderately seedy.

MD MY C 00

Where Madison Run joins the Shenandoah River stands the once prosperous village of Lynwood, VA, where the Civil War battle of Port Republic was fought, now only the old white wooden Episcopal church with its stained glass windows and this tomato remain.

Madara

Heavy set of 1" diameter bright yellow fruits on a potato-leaf plant; excellent sweet flavor; cracks easily.

IL SW J 00

Originally from Lars Olav Rostenstrom of Bromma, Sweden.

Mama Irene's

5" diameter smooth, deep pink spheres; meaty and excellent sweet flavor.

NC YE A 00

From Irene Zeleney at the farmer's market in Winsdor, Ontario.

Manyel

2½-3" smooth light-yellow fruits on 3½' vines; flesh white; exterior very waxy and hard; very late maturity which almost got caught by first frost.

NY MA C 95 - NJ BR J 92 (Joe Bratka)

Supposed to be an old Indian variety.

Marge's Polish Pride

4" bright pink smooth globes on a potato-leaf plant.

IL KE D 99
Don Kellums, Port Byron, IL

Seed came from Poland many years ago with Marge, who in turn gave a few seeds to her son-in-law who later gave me some.

Marglobe

2-3" diameter, smooth red fruits

WI PE C 93

Old commercial variety bred in 1927 from Marvel and Globe.

Mary Reynolds

5" diameter smooth, orange globes; very meaty; excellent flavor.

VA LE J2 99

Maintained for many years by Mary Reynolds of Natural Bridge, Virginia.

Mary Robinson's German Bicolor

3.5" flattened fruits with red/yellow-mottled flesh.

IL LO N 97 - - NC LE C 96

From G. Fitzgerald, VA, 1994.

Mirabel

Beautiful pastel pink-orange to white 1" sweet fruits with pink starburst on bottom; very productive.

from Reinhard Kraft, Neukirchen, Germany

Mom's

One of the prettiest bi-colors I've ever grown; orange flesh with red starburst on bottom; very sweet; good production.

IL LO N 98

From OH LU B 92 via WI MI B 97

Mortgage Lifter, Yellow

3½-4" diameter, meaty, smooth light-yellow globes; some fruits have a faint pink suffusion on the base.

WI GR S 99 .... (?) CV Southern Exposure 84

Family heirloom comes from SW VA; first of the two Mortgage Lifter strains to be offered by Southern Exposure Seeds; named by a man who paid off his farm, which he was about to lose, by selling these tomatoes; it also became known as the 'Railroad Tomato' because employees of the C&O Railroad traded the seeds.

Moskvitch

3½" juicy red fruits on 3½' vines; moderately productive; good flavor.
From Green Bay Garden Club member, probably from Johnny's Seeds.

From Eastern Siberia

Myona

3½x2½' teardrop-shaped paste tomato; meaty with excellent flavor; reminiscent of Bisignano #2; good canner.

NE BU W 00

Originally from WY RA J 82, who got seeds from a New York greenhouse that obtained them from an elderly Italian man who brought them with him to the US when he immigrated in the late 1960's.

 
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