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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

Cabbage [TSM39]
Early York* [AA, GA]
Ox Hear [AA]
Early Sugar Loaf* [AA, GA]
Red Dutch, (for pickling) [AA, GA]
Early Battersea [AA]
Large Late Drumhead [AA, GA]
Large Creole Drumhead [AA]
Large Drumhead Savoy* [AA, GA]
Flat Dutch*; Bergen* [AA, GA, BLHF]
Green Glazed* [AA]
Turnip-Rooted, above ground* or Kohl Rabi [AA]
Turnip-Rooted, below ground [AA]
Large Drumhead*
Extra Large York* [GA]
Late Battersea*
Green Curled Savoy*
Red Dutch*
Early Dwarf*
Early Philadelphia*
French Oxheart [GA]
Early Drumhead [GA]
Early Jersey Wakefield [BLHF]
Cardoon
Large Solid Stalked or Solid* [AA]

Carrot [TSM39]
Early Horn* [AA, GA, BLHF]
Altringham* [AA]
Long Orange*  [AA. BLHF]
Large White [AA]
Long Osage [GA]

Cauliflower
Large Early Asiatic [AA]
Large Late Asiatic [AA]
Early London [GA]

Celery [TSM39]
White Solid* [AA]
Red Solid* [AA]
New Silver Giant [AA, GA]
Celeriac, or Turnip-Rooted. [AA]

Chervil* [AA]

Colewart or Collards* [AA]

Corn [TSM39]
Sweet or Sugar [AA, GA]
Early Tuscarora* [AA]
Early Canada [AA]
Early Golden Flint*
Early Sugar*
White Flint*
Early White [GA]

Corn Salad or Venticost* [AA]

Cress – Peppergrass >[TSM39]
Curled*
Broad Leaved*

Cress – Water* [AA]

Cucumber TSM39
Early Frame or Cluster*[GA, BLHF]
Long Green* [GA, BLHF]
Gherkin* [BLHF]
White Spined*
Long Frame* [GA]
Early Russian [GA, BLHF]
West Indian [BLHF]