RSS

Home / Blogs / Robin282's Blog / Plants Paths--Food's Journey /

Finding Information-Origins & History of Vegetable Varieties

Category: Plants Paths--Food's Journey | Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:08 pm

---

After posting about this on another site, I thought it would be useful
here because it is fascinating
and something in which many gardeners are interested.

Following are some websites & books on the subject.
Robin

http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/heirloom/srb9807.htm
http://www.italylink.com/foodarticles/history_of_tomatoes.html
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_vegetables/article/0,,HGTV_3650_4303121,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato
http://food.oregonstate.edu/faq/uffva/squash2.html
http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/publications/vegetabletravelers/beets.html
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/cucumbers/history.html
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history2.html
http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/hort/histveg1.htm
http://www.history-magazine.com/potato.html
http://www.kokopelli-seed-foundation.com/
http://www.southernexposure.com/index.html
http://www.revolutionseeds.net/
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=5232
http://www.onions-usa.org/about/history.asp
http://www.foodreference.com/html/artvegetablesfruitsneww.html
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/horticulture/commodityNL/vidalia-feb00.htm
http://www.landscapeimagery.com/tomato.html
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/vege1.htm
http://r0.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/cotton/characteristics.htm
http://www.thecookinginn.com/introductiona.html


Books
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Enduring Seeds
Garden to Order: The Story of Mr. Burpee's Seeds and Hoe They Grow
100 Vegetables and Where They Came From
Peppers: The Domesticated Capsaicins
Heirloom Vegetables Gardening
Taylor's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
Livingston & The Tomato
Field & Garden Vegetables of America


Links to Journal/Scholarly Articles--free access at many public libraries:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-8071(188401)9%3A1%3C7%3AOODV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-\
7
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m711886544015311/
http://hort.oregonstate.edu/faculty-staff/myers
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject:%22%20vegetables%22
http://books.google.com/books?id=XnfbLPFy4tYC&pg=PA2169&lpg=PA2169&dq=origin+his\
tory+of+vegetable+varieties&source=web&ots=J-S0iDeoml&sig=7-gb4Q3B19iazx3F8tGTX9\
7aHqY&hl=en
http://books.google.com/books?id=tAnsCn0A3rcC&pg=PA1158&lpg=PA1158&dq=origin+his\
tory+of+vegetable+varieties&source=web&ots=MRn9zaD6fW&sig=-bJEJvEIcampXz_u4SbD4G\
6-Lwg&hl=en
http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache:Wfar-tyU-9IJ:www.pubhort.org/members/showdo\
cument%3Fseries%3Dhr%26volume%3D25%26article%3D2%26bestand%3D13%26layout%3Dpubho\
rt%26action%3Dshowdocument+origin+history+of+vegetable+varieties&hl=en&ct=clnk&c\
d=15&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Thanks to Dave and other friends on that site for these:
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/
http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/seeds/bibseednur.html
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/SeedNurseryCatalogs/CF/TL_SeedsSelectIm\
agesCatalog.cfm?catalog=10023
http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/SeedNurseryCatalogs/
http://www.meemelink.com/
http://www.seeds.ca/hpd/cataloglist.php
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wehner/vegcult/vgclintro.html

http://www.monticello.org/housegardenplant/index.html

http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/seeds.php

http://www.saveseeds.org/seedsmen/halloffame.html
www.liseed.org
http://vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu/
www.nativeseeds.org
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/\
corn.html


This blog entry has been viewed 35 times

---

Droopy wrote on Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:56 pm:

I love history, and I'm going to read in some of those links.

---

Leave a Comment

Home / Blogs / Robin282's Blog / Plants Paths--Food's Journey /

Home | About | Usage Rules | FAQ | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy Statistics | Member List | Member Map

© 2004-2008 GardenStew.com Contact: email us