Re: [tomato] caspian pink
Margaret Lauterbach (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:29:17 -0700
At 11:50 AM 11/17/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Caspian Pink was in trials this year. It will be introduced by
>Seminis Seed in 1999 or 2000 and should be available from most of
>the major seed catalog companies.
>
>Seminis is arguably the largest HYBRIDZER of tomato, pepper and other
>veggie seeds in the world, but this is an open pollinated variety. To
>help dispel the myth that hybridizers are plotting to take over the
>world's seed supplies, Seminis still sells Brandywine Tomato 1885,
>Old Homestead (Kentucky Wonder) Pole Bean 1864, Black Seeded Simpson
>Lettuce Pre-1880 and Alderman Pea 1878.
>
>Here's an interesting Tomato family web site:
>
>http://moby.ucdavis.edu/coursepages/plb105/students/tomato/reproduct
>ive/repro.html
>
I get a 404 for that url. Margaret