Partial Bibliography

Ellis & Bosson's Annual Catalogue of Vegetable, Tree and Flower Seeds.  Boston, 1839.

Beecher, Catharine Esther.  A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1841

The United Society.  The Gardener's Manual... New York: 1843.

Elliot & Company Catalogue... Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds.. Cleveland, Elliot & Co., 1855.

M'Cullough & Son's Catalogue of Fruit ... Garden, Field... Seeds.  Cincinnati, 1858

Haskell, Mrs. E.F., The Housekeeper's Encyclopedia (now Civil War Cooking), New York, 1861

Vegetables entered in the 1863 Ohio State Fair

1863 Ohio Agricultural Report

Burr, Fearing  Field and Garden Vegetables of America.  Boston, 1863.

Beans:

Six Week (Yellow Flageolet) --  Seeds Blum

Dwarf Horticultural                --  Locally purchased

Caseknife                            --  Seed Savers Exchange

Beets:

Early Blood Turnip                --  Heirloom Seeds

Cabbage:

Premium Flat Dutch             --  Good Seed

Sturbridge Village

Carrots:

Early Scarlet Horn                --  Bountiful Gardens

Sturbridge Village

Celery:

Solid White                         --  Bountiful Gardens

Corn:

White Gourdseed                 --  Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Cucumbers:

Early Russian                      --  Heirloom Seeds

Lettuce:

Paris White Cos                  --  Heirloom Seeds

Spinach Lettuce (Oak Leaf)  --   J.L. Hudson

Muskmelon:

Nutmeg                              --   Seeds Blum

Onions:

Yellow Globe Danvers          --   Locally purchased

Parsnips:                       

Hollow Crown                      --   Seeds Blum

  Locally purchased

Peas:

Blue Prussian     --   Landis Valley

Peppers:

Large Red Cherry                --   Seeds Blum

Potatoes:

Garnet Chili                         --  Ronniger's

Pink Eyes                           --  Ronniger's

Radishes:

Madras (Rattail)                   --  Bountiful

Rhubarb:

Victoria                               --  Shumway

Salsify:                              --  Purchased Locally

Squash:

White Pattypan                   --  Heirloom Seeds

Boston Marrow                    --  Sturbridge Village

Tomatoes:

Large Red                           --  Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Turnips:

Yellow Globe                       --  J. L. Hudson

Wheat:

Mediterranean Soft Red Winter Bearded --  Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

The Following Information is the Property of The Bradford Place.  In using the information enclosed herein please be sure to credit The Bradford Place and researchers Hank and Linda Trent, for the time and effort they put into researching, locating, growing out, and rejecting or accepting based on written discription of the growth habits and descriptions found in Fearing Burr's *Field and Garden Vegetables of America, 1863.

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Vegetables of the Kitchen Garden of the Lower North and the Upper South, in 1863.