254 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



HORSE-RADISH.— COCHLEARIA. 



Natural order, Siliquosce. A genus of the 

 Tetr adynamia Siliculosa class. 



This plant was called Raphanus rusticanus 

 by the old herbalists ; but it will be observed 

 that it is of a distinct family from the Radish, 

 and has therefore been placed in the order 

 of plants to which it belongs. It is a native 

 of this country, and has long been cultivated 

 in our gardens, as we learn from Gerard, who 

 says, " Horse-radish for the most part grow- 

 eth, and is planted in gardens, yet haue I 

 found it wilde in sundrie places, as at 

 Namptwich in Cheshire, in a place called the 

 Milne eye, and also at a small village neere 

 London, called Hogsdon, in the field next 

 vnto a farm-house leading to Kingsland, 

 where my verie good friend Master Bredwell, 

 practitioner in phisick, a learned and diligent 

 sercher of symples, and Master William 

 Martin, one of the fellowship of Barbers and 

 Chirurgians, my deere and louing friende, in 



