The Origin And History of Our Garden Vegetables to Which is Added Their Dieteti
The Origin And History of Our Garden Vegetables to Which is Added Their Dieteti
George Henslow
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" It has been more cultivated on the Continent than here. The only parts eaten are the inner leaf-stalks and the top of the stalk called the receptacle of the florets when blanched and used in stews, soups, and salads. " It is one of the European plants which has spread to an enormous extent over the prairies of South America. Dioscorides uses the word Kinara, and Pliny Scolumos, which he also calls Limonia, and classes it among thistles. He is probably referring to the Cardoon in saying, " The...re is one plant the cultiva- tion of which is extremely profitable and of which I am unable to speak without a certain degree of shame; for it is a well-known fact that some small plots of land planted with thistles (scolymos) in the vicinity of Great Carthage, and of Corduba more particularly, produce a yearly income of six thousand sesterces [about 26], this being the way in which we make the monstrous productions even of the earth subservient to our gluttonous appetites, and that, too, when the four- footed brutes instinctively refuse to touch them 1 " Pliny also says it has numerous medicinal virtues.
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