Livingston's Potato Leaf Tomato

Potato Leaf  80 days, indeterminate — The fruit are red in color and flattened-globe in shape. They are relatively small by today's modern standards, reaching about four ounces. 'Potato Leaf' is a good variety for processing and canning whole.Knowing that we were working on reassembling the A. W. Livingston seed collection, a gardener in Australia by the name of Ray South sent us a commercial packet of 'Potato Leaf' from a company called Eden Seeds in 2006.Although they did not implicitly attribute the variety to the A. W. Livingston Seed Company, their description certainly hinted at it. They stated, "Purplish red fruit, for growing in heavy soils and hot climates, known since 1887, good market and home variety."A brief communication with the company revealed that they had little history on it other than they had been offering it for years and that their original seed came from a seed saver in America.Since 1887[1,2,3] was the release date for Livingston's 'Potato Leaf' tomato, I wa