LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FIG. PAGE 



1. WILD BEET (perennial). Quarter natural size ..... 5 



2. WILD CARROT (annual). Quarter natural size . . . . . 6 



3. THE WILD PARSNIP (annual). One-fifth natural size . .10 



A. Third generation of parsnip from seed of wild plant (1847) 

 cultivated by Professor Buckman. The origin of " The 

 Student" ( length). 



B. " The Student " parsnip, twenty-eighth generation (1903) from 

 the wild plant (^ length and width) ; still one of the most 



useful in the trade (1912) li 



5. STEM AND FOLIAGE OF THE POTATO PLANT, AFTER CLUSIUS ..,'' . 14 



6. ROOTS AND TUBERS OF THE POTATO PLANT, AFTER CLUSIUS . . : . 15 



7. WILD RADISH (Hoplianu.:* Raphanistrum). (Quarter natural size) . 18 



8. LONG FORMS OF RADISH RAISED BY M. CARRIERE FROM THE WILD 



RADISH ............ 19 



9. TURNIP FORM OF RADISH RAISED BY M. CARRIERE FROM THE WILD 



, RADISH . . . .. . ..... . . . . 20 



10. WILD TURNIP (Hrnzsic.n r.ftmppstris). (One-third natural height) . 24 



11. WILD CABBAGE AS GROWING ON CHALK CLIFFS, S.E. ENGLAND . . 30 



12. WILD CABBAGE (GERARD, 1597) 31 



13. BRASSICA RAPOSA, ORIGIN OF KOHL RABI (" HISTORIA PLANTARUM," 1586) 32 



14. RAPE COLE (Caulnrapum rotundum), AFTER GERARD, 1597 . . .33 



15. PEARLY FORM OF KALE, RESEMBLING THE WILD PLANT (GERARD, 1597) 35 



16. EARLY FORM OF CAULIFLOWER (GERARD, 1597) . . . . .36 



17. THE OPEN CABBAGE COLE (Jlrasxica patula), AFTER GERARD, 1597 . . 38 



18. EARLY FORM OF SAVOY CABBAGE, THE " CURLED SAUOTE COLE " (GERARD. 



1597) . . 39 



19. MONSTROUS FORM OF CABBAGE (i)ALK('KAMP, 1586) 41 



