4338 OF CULTIVATED VEGETABLES; COMPRISING THEIR BOTANICAL, MEDICINAL, EDIBLE, AND CHEMICAL QUALITIES; NATURAL HISTORY; AND RELATION TO ART, SCIENCE, AND COMMERCE. BY HENRY PHILLIPS, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF FRUITS KNOWN IN GREAT BRITAIN. SECOND EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND CO. PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. MDCCCXXII, THIS ornamental plant is a native of Peru, from whence it was brought to Europe by the Spaniards in 1580; and it appears to have been soon afterwards cultivated in this country by Gerard, in his celebrated garden at Holborn. In the first edition of his Herbal he says, "The seedes of this rare and faire plant came first from the Indies into Spain, and those hot regions, and from thence into France and Flanders, from whence I have receiued seede that hath borne with me both flowers and seede, especially those I receiued from my louing friend John Robin of Paris. |