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* Dates back to the 1870s. Listed in the f … * Dates back to the 1870s. Listed in the following old seed catalogs:
** 1876 - "Garden, Field and Flower Seeds" of Robert C. Reeves' of New York City.
** [http://nctomatoman.topcities.com/Seed_Catalog_Scans/1877_Gregory/1877_Gregory_Tom3.jpg 1877 - "Annual Circular, Retail Catalogue, Warranted, Vegetable and flowers" by James J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA.]
** 1881 - "Seed Annual" by D. M. Ferry & Co of Detroit, Michigan.
** 1898 - "Wholesale Catalogues of Vegetable Seeds" of EW King & Co Seed Growers in Coggeshall in Essex.
** 1900 - Livingston's Seed Annual catalog.
* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1093774 PI 644894]. Donated to USDA in 1963.
* There is also a hybrid by the same name, originated in the Netherlands. same name, originated in the Netherlands.
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