294 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. 



A genus of the Syngenesia Folygamia fras- 



tranea class. 



The Jerusalem Artichoke, is a tuberous 

 rooted species of the Helianthus, Sunflower, 

 or Turnsol ; the Italians called it Girasol, 

 which we have ignorantly corrupted into 

 Jerusalem. 



Pelleterius calls it Heliotr opium Indicum 

 tuberosum. Parkinson, in whose time these 

 plants were first introduced, mentions them 

 under the title Bat tat as de Canada, the French 

 Battatas, or Hierusalem Artichokes. Coles 

 also, whose work was printed only 40 years 

 after they were known in this country, calls 

 them the Potatoes of Canada; but we are in- 

 formed in Martyn's edition of Miller, " that 

 they were so called because the French 

 brought them first out of Canada into these 

 parts ; not that Canada is their original 



