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[AA]–Listed in Affleck’s Almanac
With asterisk*–Listed in both Affleck and Maupay
Italicized with asterisk*–
Listed in Maupay
[TA]–Vegetables suggested by the
Texas Almanac, 1857, looking through their monthly horticultural calendar
[TSM39]–From the garden of Thomas Stuart McFarland, a farmer near
Belgrade, Newton County, in southeast Texas, April 18, 1839. From Abt, Jeffry and Leabeth.  “Documents:  The Gardening Sentiments of an Early Texas Pioneer.”
[TSM40]–From the garden of Thomas Stuart McFarland, a farmer near Belgrade, Newton County, in southeast Texas, April 16, 1840. From Abt, Jeffry and Leabeth.  “Documents:  The Gardening Sentiments of an Early Texas Pioneer.”
[GA]–
Columbus [GA] Enquirer, January 1, 1850, p. 1, c. 1, Fresh Garden Seeds, for 1850. “Just received by Robert Carter, Sign of the Red Mortar, Columbus, Dec. 11”
[BLHF]–Vegetables suggested for use at
Barrington Living History Farm (1847-1856) Washington, TX

Beans

Bush or Snap Beans, also known as Kidney Dwarfs, or Snap Shorts
Early Mohawk* [AA, GA]
Early Valentine* or Early Snap; (AA, GA)
Early China [AA, GA]
Early Yellow Six Weeks* [AA, TA, GA]
Red Bush Cranberry [AA]
Refuge, or Thousand to One [AA]
Large White Kidney*, or Royal Dwarf [AA]
Early China Red Eye
*
Red Speckled French
*
Early Speckled Kidney
*
Bunch Bean [TSM40]
Black Valentine [BLHF]
Soldier [BLHF]
Jackson Wonder Butter Bean [BLHF]
Carolina or Sieva Lima Bean [BLHF]
Kentucky Wonder Lima [BLHF]
Dwarf Horticultural or Wren’s Egg [BLHF]
Black Turtle [BLHF]
Jacob’s Cattle [BLHF]

Pole or Runners
Large Lima or Butter* [AA, TA, TSM39, GA]  or
White Flat Lima
*
Carolina Lima [TA] or Seewee* [AA]
Scarlet Running* (AA, BLHF)
London Horticultural [AA]
White Dutch* [AA, GA]
White Cranberry Runners
*
Horticultural Cranberry
* [GA]
Small White Runners
*
Early Dun Beans [TA]
Indian Chief Pole Bean [GA]
Ruth Bible [BLHF]
Christmas Lima [BLHF]
Lazy Wife (White Cranberry) [BLHF]
White Half Runner [BLHF]

English or Broad Bean; also known as English Dwarfs
Broad Windsor* [AA, BLHF]
Early Long Pod [AA, GA, BLHF]
Early Mazagan*

Beets [TSM39]
Extra Early Turnip [AA]
Early Blood Turnip* [AA, GA, TA, BLHF]
Long Blood* [AA, GA]
Mangel Wurtzel* [AA, [BLHF-Animal feed]]
White Sugar [AA, TA]
Yellow Beet*
French Sugar Beet
*
Swiss Chard
*
Mammoth Red [BLHF]