Tomatoes, Livingston Tomatoes

Solanum lycopersicum formerly Lycopersicon esculentum

Packets contain approximately 20 seeds unless otherwise noted.
[Although we separate seeds during the harvest process, you may find small clumps of multiple seeds in your packet. Separate into individual seeds before sowing.]

[A. W. Livingston's Bio] [Livingston Seed Company's Business History]
[The Complete List of Livingston Tomato Introductions]
[Growing Guide & More Information] [About Tomato Colors] 

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A.W. Livingston's Famous Tomatoes
About Our A. W. Livingston Tomato Collection:


This collection of A. W. Livingston tomato varieties is a perfect example of the biodiversity preservation work that your purchases help to support. For over two decades, our founder Mike Dunton, worked to assemble this collection, as well as to research the seedsman who originally created them. After searching, growing, and confirming that field observations matched original source documentary evidence, we are proud to offer the most complete, as well as the most accurate, collection of A. W. Livingston tomato varieties available anywhere, in perhaps eighty years.

A word of caution regarding opportunistic vendors . . . Just as they did in the time of A. W. Livingston, other seed sellers have purchased seed from us, grown out their own stock and are offering some of these varieties that we have worked hard to re-release. Please understand that the seed that they are offering has not been grown by us. We only offer our seeds direct to you, our gardening friends and supporters and never through third parties.

If you would like to grow out seed that is as close to what you could have purchased from old A. W. himself, please consider ordering from us. Your purchases do directly support our continued seed variety preservation work. Without it, varieties like these would remain in obscurity or worse, be lost forever.

For the rest of the story on how this all got started, please click here.
 
Informational Reources:
• "Seed Annual for 1933," The Livingston Seed Company
• "Livingston's True Blue Seeds," A. W. Livingston's Sons, 1896
• "Livingston and the Tomato," A. W. Livingston, 1893
• "Livingston's Seed Annual," The Livingston Seed Company, 1900
• Livingston Seed Company, "Seed Annual for 1918"
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1920 Seed Annual"
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1923 Seed Annual"
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1931 Seed Annual"
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1936 Seed Annual"
• Heritage Seed Curators Australia, "Lost Tomato Varieties" (organization dissolved in 2002)
• "The Vegetable Garden," Vilmorin-Andrieux, 1885
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1942 Wholesale Catalog"
• The Livingston Seed Company, "1933 Seed Annual"
• "Descriptions of Principle Types of American Varieties of Tomatoes," USDA, October, 1933.
• "An Early Work With Mendel's Law," American Breeder's Magazine, E. C. Green, Vol. 3 No. 2, 1912.
• "Tomato Varieties," by Gordon Morrison, Michigan State College A.E.S., Special Bulletin 290, April 1938
• "Livingston's Choice New Vegetables for 1897," A. W. Livingston and Sons.

• "A New Tomato, Livingston's Globe," The Livingston Seed Company, 1904.

• "1905 Annual of True Blue Seeds," The Livingston Seed Company.