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may have been Lescarbot' s rather than Chain/plain's, for it was 

 Lescarbot that was entrusted with the cultivation of the garden 

 at Port Itoyal. He says, p. 518 6C je n'ai jamais taut travaille 

 du corps, pour le piaisir que je tenais a dresser et cultiver mes 

 jardins, les fermer contre la gourmandise des pourceaux .... 

 semer froment, orge, avoine, feves, pois, herbes de jardin, et les 

 arroser." 



Mr. W. F. Ganong, however, is inclined to attribute the actual 

 importation of thei tubers to another member of the same expedi- 

 tion, Louis Hebert, the apothecary, who was afterwards the first 

 permanent settler at Quebec. Lescarbot mentions Hebert 

 several times* and says of him : " Le Sieur de Monts yt fit culti- 

 ver un pare de terre pour y semer du ble & plater la vigne, 

 comme il fit a Paide de notre Apoticaire M. Louis Hebert, homme 

 qui outre T experience qu'il a en son art, prent grand piaisir au 

 labourage de la terre." 



Lescarbot did not return to New France, but in 1G08, at the 

 instance of his friends, wrote an account of the French expedi- 

 tions up to that date, which appeared in 1609 under the title of 

 " Histoire de la Nouvelle France, "J where he says, at p. 849, in 

 describing the produce of the land, " Y\ y a encore en Li terre des 

 Armouchiquois§ certaine eorte de arcines grosser comme le pain, 

 tres excellentes a manger, ayant un gout retirat mix cavdes, nvais 

 plus agreable, les que lies plantes multiplient en telle facon que 

 e'est merveille." From the last remark we may gather tliat they 

 had been grown in the garden at Port Royal. Whether Lescarbot 

 ever had seen them in native kail-Yards is doubtful, for he only 

 once went beyond Port Royal, when he accompanied Chevalier to 

 the St. John River, and appears to have reached the island of 

 Sainte Croix, now Dochet island, in <he river St. Croix, near to 

 where it empties itself into the Bay of Passamaquoddy.il 



To continue the quotation : " je croy que ce sont Afrodilles 

 suivant la description que Pline en fait." He means the 

 Asphodel us of Pliny, Xat. Hist, xxi., c. 17,f a nonsensical 

 identification. 



Here again we obviously have the Jerusalem artichoke, but 

 neither here, nor in the second edition does Lescarbot surest 

 that lie brought the tubers to Europe. It is only in the third 

 edition, " enrichie de plusieurs choses singulieres, outre la suite 

 de Thistoire," and published IB 1617, that he makes thai claim.** 



* Book iv. c. xiv. and c. xv. pp. 603 and 606 in ed. 1609 ; pp. 565 and 569 in 

 ed. 1611, but pp. 557 and 561 in ed. 1618; nnd a#ain in Book vi. c. xxiv. 

 p. 841 in ed. 1609, p. 832 in ed. 1611, but c. xxiii. p. 922 in ed. 1618. 



t In the Armonchiquois country, not- far from Mallebarre. 

 X A second edition appeared in 1611 and was reprinted without alteration 

 in 1612. It contains nothing additional about the edible tubers. 

 § %Sn Southern Maine and Massachusetts. 



fl See note in vol. iii. p. 122. of the Champlain Society's reprint of Hist. 

 Noov. France, and for the islard of Ste. Croix, see G-anong, Dochet Island, 

 in Trans. Roy. Son. Canada, 2nd ser. ? viii. p. 127. 



«" There is no such name as Afrodillus or Aphrodillus in Pliny. 



** I am informed by Mr. A. P. Bicrgar that the copy in the Bibliotheque 

 Rationale at Paris, from which is taken the text reprinted by the Cham plain 

 Society (1907-1913), bears the date 1617. The British Museum copy is dated 

 1618. 



