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HISTORY 



OF 



CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



INDIAN CRESS, or NASTURTIUM.— 

 THOP^OLUM. 



Natural order, Tripelatce. A genus of the 

 Octandria Monogynia class. 



This ornamental plant is a native of Peru, 

 from whence it was brought to Europe by 

 the Spaniards in 1580 ; and it appears to 

 have been soon afterwards cultivated in this 

 country by Gerard, in his celebrated garden 

 at Holborn. 



In the first edition of his Herbal he says, 

 " The seedes of this rare and faire plant 

 came first from the Indies into Spain, and 

 those hot regions, and from thence into 

 France and Flanders, from whence I have 

 receiued seede that hath borne with me both 

 flowers and seede, especially those I receiued 

 from my louing friend John Robin of Paris. 



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