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Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

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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

Salsify or Vegetable Oyster* [TA, GA]
Vegetable Oyster*
Black Salsify, or Scorzonera [AA]

Shallot
Red [AA]
White [AA]

Sorrel*
Broad-Leaved Garden

Spinage [Spinach]
Broad-Leaved [AA]
Prickly*
Large Leaved Flanders*
Round Seed Savoy*
Round-Leaved [TA, GA]

Squash [TSM39]
Early Bush* [TA]
Green Striped [AA, BLHF]
White Scallop [AA, BLHF]
Egg or Apple [AA]
Winter Crook-Neck*
Boston Marrow [AA, BLHF]
Lima or Cocoanut [AA]
Acorn or California [AA]
Vegetable Marrow [AA]
Long Green*
Long White*
Early Yellow Bush [GA]
Early Crook-Neck Bush [GA]
Hubbard [BLHF]
Turk’s Turban [BLHF]
Early Yellow Crookneck [BLHF]
Yellow Bush Scallop [BLHF]

Swiss Chard*