1.   An adventurous grower might even offer Jenny Lind, an heirloom variety once widely grown on the East Coast.

2.   As I stood dumbfounded, less than a dozen feet away, he casually rummaged through the basket until he found a large pink fruit of an heirloom variety.

3.   His buddleias, natives of the Chihuahuan desert, and his pomegranate trees are heirloom varieties developed in the Southwest.

4.   In the past few years, dozens of independent seed companies have emerged specializing in heirloom varieties.

5.   Instead, the sunflower-possessed choreographer is seeking disease-resistant heirloom varieties and look-alikes.

6.   Many are heirloom varieties like Roxbury Russet and Grimes Golden apples and newer varieties like Liberty that are immune to a serious apple disease called scab.

7.   Maria Mingalone of Great Barrington, Mass. grows five heirloom varieties.

8.   My favorites are Italian heirloom varieties like Violette di Firenze or Rosa Bianca.

9.   Others, like the lemons, are heirloom varieties, which were shunted aside by the waxy torpedoes in the battle for market supremacy.

10.   One time, for instance, he bought a tomato dryer and became fixated on growing certain flavorful but rare heirloom varieties from seed.