1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 143 
THE HISTORY OF GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
BY E. L. STURTEVANT. 
(Continued from p. 48. Vol. XXIV., 1890.) 
PARSNIP CHERVIL. Cherophyllum bulbosum L. 
T roots of this plant, appearing almost like a short carrot, 
but generally smaller, are eaten boiled; a sub-variety has 
the roots nearly round.’ The wild plant is described by Came- 
rarius? in 1588, and by Clusius? in 1601, and is also named by 
Bauhin‘ in 1623. Asa cultivated plant it seems to have been 
first noted about 1855, when the root is described as seldom so 
` large as a hazel nut, while in 1861 it had. attained the size and 
shape of the French round carrot.® It appeared in American 
seed catalogues in 1884 or earlier, and was described by Burrê 
for American gardens in 1863. It was known in England in 
1726, but was not under esculent culture.’ 
The Parsnip chervil’, turnip-rooted chervil or tuberous-rooted 
chervil, is called in France, cerfeuil tubereux, cerfeuil bulbeux ; in 
Germany, 4orbelrube, kerbelrube ; in Flanders and Holland, noll- 
kervel; in Denmark, 4yorvelroe ; in Spain, perifollo bulboso® 
PATIENCE DOCK. Rumex patientia L. 
This species is less acid than the common sorrel, and is occa- 
sionally grown for the same purposes. De Candolle? thinks it 
the Rumex sativus of Pliny. The name monk's rhubarb, or rha- 
barbarum monachorum of Tragus, 1552, indicates its presence in 
1 Bon Jard., 1884, p. 37. 
2 Camerarius. Hort., 1588. 
? Treas. of Bot., I., 74. 
8 Vilmorin. Les Pl. Pot., 1883, 79. 
9 Decandoille. Geog. Bot,, II., 847. 
