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Old December 1, 2014   #4
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Originally Posted by travis View Post
Red Rose is an open pollinated, stable cross of Brandywine x Rutgers, sold by Tomato Growers Supply for over a dozen years that I know of. The only reason I could see for buying Burpee's extremely expensive version of this cross would be to collect F2 seeds to spend several years selecting your own version of what you can buy now for less than half the price and a fraction of the effort.
Thanks Bill ,who saw the same issue elsewhere,let me know about it and he linked to the following, which I still have in my faves and I linked to it at that other site.

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/RED-ROSE/productinfo/5818/

Carolyn, who didn't get here until now b'c she was watching the snow melt.
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