486 sturtevant's notes on edible plants 



as having a long and translucent root. This type is not described in England by Lyte 

 iior by Gerarde; it is described as in the gardens of Aleppo in 1573-75.' In 1658, Bon- 

 tius' calls them, in Java, Dutch radish. In 1837, Bojer* names them in the Mauritius 

 and in 1842 Speede * gives an Indian name, lumbee moolee. 



Raphanus sativus. Mill. Baillon Hi5^ P/5. 3:222. 



Rapkanns minor pur pureus. Lob. Obs. gg. 1576; /con. 1:201. 1591. 



Raphanus longus. Cam. Epit. 224. 1586. 



Raphanus purpureus minor. Lob. Dalechamp. 636. 1587. 



Radicula sativa minor. Dod. 676. 1616. 



Raphanus corynihia. Bodaeus. 769. 1644. 



Long Scarlet. Vilm. 490. 1885. 



Long White Vienna. Vilm. 492. 1885. 



III. 

 Long White Late Radish. 

 The long, white, late, large radishes cannot be recognized in the ancient writings, 

 unless it be the reference by Pliny * to the size; some radishes, he says, are the size of a 

 boy infant, and Dalechamp * says that such could be seen in his day in Thuringia and 

 Erfordia. In Japan, so says Kizo Tamari,^ a Japanese commissioner to the New Orleans 

 Exposition of 1886, the radishes are mostly cylindrical, fusiform or club-shaped, from 

 one-fourth of an inch to over a foot in diameter, from six inches to over a yard in length. 

 J. Morrow ' says that Lew Chew Radishes often grow between two and three feet long 

 and more than twelve inches in circimiference. In 1604, Acosta ' writes that he had 

 seen in the Indies " redish rootes as bigge as a man's arme, very tender and of good taste." 

 These radishes are probably mentioned by Albertus Magnus '" in the thirteenth century, 

 who says that the radix are very large roots of a pyramidal figure, with a somewhat sharp 

 savor, but not that of raphanus; they are planted in gardens. This type seems to have 

 been the principal kind in northern Europe a few centuries later and is said by Lyte," 

 1586, to be the common radish of England. In 1790, Loureiro '^ describes this type as 

 cultivated in China and Cochin China, and this seems to be the form described by 

 Kaempfer " in Japan, in 17 12. The radishes figured by the early botanists enable us to 

 connect very closely with modem varieties. 



> Gronovius Fl. Orient. 81. 1755. 

 Bontius De Ind. 12. 1658. 

 Bojer, W. Hort. Maurit. 16. 1837. 

 * Speede Ind. Handb. Card. 147. 1842. 

 ' Pliny lib. 19, c. 26. 



' Dalechamp Hist. Gen. PI. (Lugd.) 634. 1857. 

 ' Amer. Hort. Sept. 9, 1886. 

 'Perry Japan 2:16. 1852-54. 



'Acosta Nat. Mor. Hist. Ind. 261. 1604. Hakl. Soc. Ed. 1880. 

 > Albertus Magnus Veg. Jessen Ed. 556, 645. 1867. 

 " Dodoens Herb. 687. 1586. Lyte Ed. 

 " Loureiro Fl. Cochin. 396. 1790. 

 w Kaempfer Amoen. 822. 1712. 



