Can I Grow 100 Year Old Tomato Seeds?

I came across an old packet of free tomato seeds in a 1926 Stark Bro's Seeds catalogue. This variety seemed to be exclusive to Stark Bro's at the time and they named it "Stark's Blight Resister". I believe this to be a blight and wilt-resistant variety of the Norton tomato, in which the Norton...

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