CHAP. I. CULINAHY VEGETABLES. Ill 



thick skin, which when peeled and cut displays the anasto- 

 mosing veins and granular formation of the true Truffle. It 

 grows a few inches under the soil, some of the larger ones 

 making their appearance above the surface. It is of an earthy 

 yellow colour, not unlike a potato in appearance. The Kangra 

 Truffle is found only where the Pinus longifolia grows, and there 

 in great abundance. Colonel Elphinston adds, that when cooked 

 it proved highly flavoured and of excellent quality.* 



ENDOGENS. 

 GEAMINACEA 



Zea Mays. 



MATZE INDIAN CORN. 



Blwot MuJcJca. 



The unripe and tender heads of Indian Corn, when cooked, 

 are considered by most persons a most delicious vegetable. 

 They are first boiled in milk, afterwards roasted, and then 

 eaten with butter and pepper and salt. 



The plant is a native of Mexico ; but though it has now 

 become thoroughly naturalised in all parts of India, it seems 

 to have much degenerated, as the produce it affords is vastly 

 inferior in every respect to that raised from the seed imported 

 annually from America by the Agri-Horticultural Society. 



The usual season for sowing the seed is about the beginning 

 of the Eains. It should be sown in rows a foot apart, and the 

 grains at eight inches apart in the rows. No particular care is 

 required in the cultivation. The heads will be fit for use in 

 August and September. 



ARACE^E. 



Colocasia antiquorum. 



KueJi oo Ghoyan. 



A native vegetable, of which the tubers, nearly resembling 

 in outward appearance those of the Jerusalem Artichoke, are 



* See ' Proceedings of the Agri-Hort. Soc. of the Punjab,' Dec. 1865, p. 7. 



