TIMELINE OF VEGETABLE VARIETIES - Thomas Etty Esq

1 TIMELINE OF VEGETABLE VARIETIES Type variety Date Type variety Date Orach Green 1213 Lettuce White Paris Cos 1729 Orach Red 1213 Lettuce Green Paris Cos or Verte Mara ch re 1729 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Early Jalapeno 1500 Rocket Turkish 1731 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Large Red Cherry 1543 French Bean (Climbing) White Soissons or Case Knife 1749 Radish Black Spanish Round 1548 French Bean (Dwarf) Lazy Housewife or Coco Blanc 1749 Skirret 1548 Cardoon Puvis or Common 1750 Marrow Early White Flat Custard 1590 Asparagus Pea 1596 Lettuce Blonde de Paris or Batavia Blonde 1751 Caper 1596 Seakale Lily-white 1753 Chervil Turnip-rooted 1753 Purslane Golden 1600 Artichoke Vert de Laon or Large Green Paris 1756 Purslane Green 1600 Strawberry Hautbois or Musk 1766 Runner Bean Painted Lady 1633 Cucumber Bedfordshire Prize or Long Prickly 1767 Runner Bean Scarlet Emperor (Scarlet Runners) 1633 New Zealand Spinach 1770 Strawberry Blite 1633 Borecole or Kale Jersey Tree Kale 1771 Fennel Sweet Florence or Romanesco 1677 Broad Bean Crimson-flowered 1771 Cabbage (Savoy)

2 Large Drumhead or des Vertus 1771 Carrot White Belgian 1700 Endive De Meaux 1771 Melon Petit Gris de Rennes 1700 Endive Green or Moss Curled 1771 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Connecticut Field or Large Yellow 1700 French Bean (Dwarf) Canadian Wonder/Rognon de Coq 1771 Radish Long White Icicle 1700 Onion Paris Silver-skinned 1771 Broad Bean Green Windsor 1704 Onion (Allium ramosum) Fragrant Flowered Garlic 1771 Radish Black Spanish Long 1707 Onion (Allium victorialis) Victory Onion 1773 Couve Tronchuda 1721 Aubergine White Egg 1777 Tiger Nuts 1724 Broccoli Purple Sprouting 1777 Leaf Beet Fordhook Giant or Swiss Chard 1727 Broccoli White Sprouting 1777 Lettuce Spotted, Bloody or Trout Cos 1727 Onion Welsch 1777 Parsley Hamburg Turnip-rooted 1727 Borecole Dwarf Green Curled 1779 Rocket Salad 1727 Cabbage (Savoy) d'Aubervilliers 1783 Type variety Date Type variety Date Broccoli Green Sprouting 1784 Cauliflower Sicilian Violet or Di Sicilia Violetto 1812 Lettuce Mr Wheeler's Tom Thumb 1784 Carrot Spanish Black or Morada 1813 Onion (Allium senescens) Broad-leaved Chives 1785 Borecole or Kale Flander's Purple 1817 Onion White Lisbon 1787 Leek Musselburgh 1817 Red Cabbage Red Drumhead 1787 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Turk's Cap or Turban 1817 Melon Black Rock or Noir des Carmes 1788 Sweet Pepper (C.)

3 Annuum) Spanish Mammoth 1817 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Long Red Cayenne 1789 Borecole or Kale Red Russian 1818 Artichoke Green Globe 1790 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Bird Eye or Piri Piri 1819 Leaf Beet Perpetual Spinach or Erbette 1790 Onion Perennial Welsh 1819 Borecole or Kale Nero di Toscana or Cavalo Nero 1792 Turnip Aberdeen Green Top't Yellow 1823 Celery Cutting or Wild 1793 Carrot Mr James's Scarlet Intermediate 1824 Onion Brown Spanish 1793 Melon Green-fleshed American 1824 Onion (Allium cernuum) Nodding Onion 1799 Courgette Cocozelle von Tripolis 1826 Watermelon Moon & Stars 1826 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Pimento di Padron 1800 Turnip Early White Stone or Snowball 1826 Parsley Italian Giant 1800 French Bean (Climbing) Lazy Housewife or Coco Blanc 1828 Rocket Wild 1800 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Satan's Kiss or Ciliegia Piccante 1828 Tomato (Indeterminate) Yellow Pear-shaped.

4 1800 Onion Roscoff 1828 Borecole or Kale Thousand-headed 1801 Carrot Chantenay Red-cored 1829 Carrot Long Red Surrey 1801 Lettuce All The Year Round 1829 Turnip Red top Norfolk 1802 Cauliflower Dwarf Erfurt or Snowball 1830 Parsnip Hollow Crown. 1803 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Rouge vif d Etampes 1830 Aubergine Early Long Purple 1805 Borecole or Kale Hungry Gap 1831 French Bean (Climbing) Borlotto lingua di fuoco 1805 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Paprika 1831 Lettuce Red Winter or Rouge d'Hiver 1805 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Hundred-weight 1831 Onion Dark Red Brunswick/Rouge Fonce 1805 Artichoke Romanesco or Purple Globe 1835 Onion (Allium tricoccum) Ramp or Wild Leek 1807 Broad Bean Mr Bunyard's Exhibition 1835 Melon Prescott Fond Blanc 1809 Celery Giant or Brydon's Prize Red 1835 Corn Salad Verte de Cambrai 1810 Pea Prince Albert 1837 Type variety Date Type variety Date Parsley Champion Moss Curled 1838 French Bean (Dwarf)

5 Spread-eagle or Nun's Belly-button 1856 Cauliflower Autumn Giant 1838 Leaf Beet Ruby or Rhubarb Chard 1856 Turnip Golden Ball or Chivas' Yellow Jelly 1838 Lettuce Mr Lobjoit s Green Cos 1856 Turnip Veitch s Red Globe 1838 Lettuce Stanstead Park or Passion Blonde 1856 Rhubarb Myatt s Victoria 1839 Lettuce Mr Webb s Wonderful 1856 Lettuce Arctic King 1839 Pea Purple-podded 1856 Cabbage Jersey Wakefield 1840 Beetroot Golden 1857 Swede Green Top't Yellow 1840 Turnip Long White Vertus or Jersey Navet 1858 Beetroot Tonda di Chioggia 1841 Endive Fine de Louviers 1857 Carrot Blanche de K ttingen 1842 French Bean (Climbing) Marvel of Venice 1858 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) True Green Hubbard 1842 Turnip Early White Milan 1858 Radish Chinese Rose 1843 Turnip Long White Vertus 1858 Cabbage Mr Wheeler s Imperial 1844 Radish Long Scarlet (Wood's Early Frame?) 1859 Lettuce Fat Lazy Blonde 1844 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Small Sugar 1860 Hot Pepper (C.)

6 Chinense) Tabasco 1848 Salsify Sandwich Island 1860 Kohl Rabi Early White Vienna 1849 Tomato (Indeterminate) Red Pear-shaped 1861 Kohl Rabi Purple Vienna 1849 Endive Green Curled Ruffec 1863 Lettuce Brown Winter or Brune d'Hiver 1849 Cucumber Mr Rollisson's Telegraph Improved 1864 Radish French Breakfast 1865 Carrot Jaune Obtuse du Doubs 1851 Asparagus Mr Connovers Colossal 1866 Parsnip Half-long Guernsey 1852 Cabbage Holland Late Winter 1866 Swede Champion or Purple-top Yellow 1852 Onion Sweet Spanish Yellow 1866 Asparagus Argenteuil Early 1853 Spinach Viroflay Giant 1866 Leek Jaune Gros du Poitou 1853 Cabbage (Savoy) January King or Vertus 1867 Beetroot Crapaudine or Toad 1854 Carrot Early Nantes Shorthorn 1867 Melon Jenny Lind 1854 Corn Salad Large Seeded 1867 Rhubarb Mr Hawke's Champagne 1854 Turnip Demi-long de Croissy 1867 Endive En Cornet de Bordeaux 1856 Aubergine New York Round Purple 1869 French Bean (Climbing) Cosse Violet or Purple-podded 1856 Beetroot Mr Crosby's Egyptian 1869 Mangold Wurzel Mammoth Red 1869 Type variety Date Type variety Date Onion Bedfordshire Champion 1869 Leek Lyon 1883 Pea Lincoln 1884 Hot Pepper (C.

7 Frutescens) Fish 1870 Carrot Touchon Ideal Red 1885 Hot Pepper (C. chinense) Red Scotch Bonnet 1870 Cime di Rapa 1885 Onion Blood Red Flat Italian 1870 French Bean (Climbing) Blue Lake White-seeded 1885 Celeriac Giant Prague 1871 Lettuce Daniel's Continuity 1885 Chicory Witloof or Large Brussels 1872 Onion Long Red Florence 1885 French Bean (Dwarf) Chevrier Vert 1872 Tomato (Indeterminate) Red Brandywine 1886 Onion Queen 1873 Onion Ailsa Craig 1887 Beetroot Egyptian Turnip-rooted 1874 Sweet Pepper (C. annuum) Sweet Nardello 1887 Cauliflower Gigante di Napoli precoce 1874 Cabbage Golden Acre 1889 Leek Giant Winter 1874 Celery Golden Self Blanching 1889 Leek Monstrueux de Carentan 1874 Radicchio Rossa di Treviso 1889 Carrot Paris Market 1875 Tomato (Indeterminate) Golden Jubilee 1889 Cucumber (Gherkin) Parisian Pickling 1876 Tomato (Indeterminate) Orange Banana 1889 Onion Giant Zittau.

8 1876 Onion Southport Red Globe 1890 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Giraumon Galeux d'Eysine 1876 Tomato (Indeterminate) Yellow Perfection 1890 Pea Tall Telephone 1878 Broad Bean Masterpiece Green Longpod 1891 Lettuce Black-seeded Simpson 1880 Pea Alderman 1891 Lettuce Little Gem or Sucrine 1880 Pea Carouby du Maussane 1891 Lettuce Marvel of the Four Seasons 1880 Tomato (Indeterminate) Harbinger 1891 Onion Reliance or Oakey 1880 Tomato (Indeterminate) Ponderosa Pink 1891 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Delicata 1880 Beetroot Detroit Dark Red 1892 Sweet Pepper (C. annuum) Long Red Marconi 1880 Pea Daisy or Small Telephone 1892 Tomato (Indeterminate) St. Pierre 1880 Runner Bean Prize-winner 1892 Melon Blenheim Orange 1881 Mangold Wurzel (Fodder Beet) Yellow Eckendorf 1893 Radish Scarlet Globe 1881 Cucumber Lemon or Crystal Lemon 1894 Carrot Oxheart 1882 Pea Senator 1894 Tomato (Indeterminate) Golden Queen 1882 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Golden Hubbard 1896 Beetroot Cheltenham Green Top 1883 Cabbage April 1897 Type variety Date Type variety Date Carrot Roug Sang or Violette 1897 Spinach Bloomsdale Long-standing 1920 Parsnip Tender and True 1897 Brussels Sprout Fillbasket or Bedford 1922 Sweetcorn Golden Bantam.

9 1898 French Bean (Dwarf) Tendergreen 1922 Cabbage (Savoy) Ormskirk 1899 Broad Bean The Sutton 1923 Tomato (Indeterminate) Oxheart Giant 1925 Beetroot Bulls Blood 1900 Courgette Black Milan or Black Beauty 1927 Carrot Autumn Giant 1900 French Bean (Dwarf) Prince or Long Tom 1927 Onion Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou 1900 Sweet Pepper (C. annuum) Californian Wonder 1928 Pea Little Marvel 1900 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Hungarian Hot Wax 1930 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Marina di Chioggia 1900 Onion Sweet Spanish White 1930 Radish Munchen Bier 1900 Scorzonera Duplex 1930 Leek Long de M zi res 1901 Pea Onward 1932 Aubergine Black Beauty 1902 Cauliflower All The Year Round 1933 Courgette De Nice Fruit Rond 1903 Cabbage Durham Early 1934 Marrow Long Green Bush 1904 Runner Bean Streamline 1934 French Bean (Dwarf) Masterpiece 1907 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Hot Portugal 1935 Tomato (Indeterminate) Ailsa Craig 1907 Tomato (Indeterminate) White Wonder 1936 Lettuce Winter Density 1909 Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia 1937 Tomato (Semi-determinate) Marmande 1910 Pea Kelvedon Wonder 1938 Carrot Amsterdam Forcing 1911 Tomato (Determinate) Harrison's First in the Field 1938 Radicchio Variegate di Castelfranco 1912 Pea Progress No.

10 9 1939 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Beaver Dam 1912 Tomato (Indeterminate) San Marzano 1939 Hot Pepper (C. annuum) Maule's Red Hot 1912 Spinach Giant Winter 1940 Pea Sharpe's Meteor 1914 Leek Bleu de Solaise 1942 Tomato (Determinate) Marglobe 1917 Okra Red Burgundy 1942 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Buttercup 1919 Pea Douce Provence 1942 Rhubarb Mr Glaskin's Perpetual 1919 Pumpkin or Squash ( ) Waltham Butternut 1944 Tomato (Determinate) Golden Sunrise 1894 Tomato (Determinate) Roma 1950 Brussels Sprout Evesham Special 1920