Very interesting, Jerry.
Here is another sales pitch for a "special strain" of Earliana:
"(Herbert P. Langdon & Son) have developed a particularly early and fine tomato, called the Langdon Strain of Earlianas, from the most carefully selected specimens of which they put up large quantities of seeds for sale to seedsmen. For the choicest of these seeds they have no difficulty in disposing of all they raise at five dollars per ounce, with other grades selling at varying figures down to sixty cents per ounce." http://franklinhistorian.blogspot.co...-tomatoes.html