Gloriana, Burpee's

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Gloriana, Burpee's
Maturity	early
Growth habit	det.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	red
Fruit shape	globe
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	commercial heirloom
Country	USA

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History

• Breeder and vendor: W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia. Burpee Catalog 1941.
• Parentage: five-generation inbred from cross Earliana x Bison.
• PI 303708. Donated to USDA in 1965.
• This is what 1941 Burpee's Seed Catalog said about this tomato:

"1077 Burpee's New Gloriana Tomato - A new tomato of Earliana type, but preceding that variety in maturity by 3 to 5 days and excelling it in quality, fruit shape and appearance, yield, and length of bearing season. Gloriana tomato was developed from a cross of Bison and Earliana at our Michigan breeding grounds and as a result of careful selecting and reselecting on our Fordhook Farms in Pennsylvania, under the direct supervision of our tomato breeding experts, we offer a variety deserving of your attention.

The plant is small at the beginning of the season, becoming medium size when fully grown; it is indeterminate in habit, with small leaves of heavy texture. The fruit clusters are very large, the basal cluster bearing as any as 12 fruits under average conditions. Fruits is medium scarlet-red, semi-globular, neat at the shoulder, with extremely small stem, cavity and blossom scar; average weight 5 ozs., cracking less than Earliana. Interior is moderately open but firm.

Each year we conduct hundreds of trials of tomatoes on our experiental grounds. Comparative trials of Gloriana and the many different strains of Earliana convince us that Gloriana is a superior variety of the Earliana class for home garden and early arket. Ripe fruit is ready to pick in about 55 days from the tie the plants are set in the garden."

• See the page from Burpee's 1941 catalog for more details.

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Also known as

• Sunnybrook Earliana

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Related

• Earliana
• Bison

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
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2013	Sand Hill Preservation Center	.	.
2012	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	0
2011	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	0
2010	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	.
2009	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	.
2008	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	.
2007	Sand Hill Preservation Center	1	.

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