• 'Greater Baltimore' tomatoes.
  • 'Greater Baltimore' tomato plants.
  • 'Greater Baltimore' tomato.
  • 'Greater Baltimore' tomato from the 1908 Bolgiano Seed Annual
  • Greater Baltimore Tomato - 1915 Seed Packet
  • 'Greater Baltimore' tomato from the 1905 Bolgiano Seed Annual
  • Trial grow out results letter from 1906.
  • Trial grow out results letter from 1906.
  • Trial grow out results letter from 1906.
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Greater Baltimore Tomato

Greater Baltimore Tomato

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Greater Baltimore

95 days, indeterminate — The plants have regular leafed foliage with fruit that are red in color, slightly flattened globe in shape, and average five to six ounces each. Its flavor is not sweet but quite mild (sub-acid) for a red.

'Greater Baltimore' quickly became popular and remained an important variety in the canning regions, except in shorter season areas, well into the twentieth century. It was also offered by most of the seed companies and popular with home and smaller market gardeners.[4]

It is reported to have been developed from a single plant selection made about 1900 by John Baer of Baltimore, Maryland. The plant was discovered in a field of Livingston's 'Stone' and discovered to be wilt resistant. It was released by J. Bolgiano & Sons of Baltimore in 1905.[1,4] Each packet contains approximately 20 seeds.

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Informational Resources:
  1. "Descriptions of Principle Types of American Varieties of Tomatoes", USDA, October, 1933.
  2. J. Bolgiano & Sons Seed Annual, 1905.
  3. J. Bolgiano & Sons Seed Annual, 1908.
  4. "Tomato Varieties," by Gordon Morrison, Michigan State College A.E.S., Special Bulletin 290, April 1938

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