1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 323 
not described in England by Lyte nor by Gerarde ; it is described 
as in the gardens of Aleppo in 157 3-5.> In 1658 Bontius® * 
calls them in Java Dutch radish; in 1837 Bojer” names them 
in the Mauritius, and in 1842 Speede™ gives an Indian name, 
lumbee moolee. i 
Raphanus minor purpureus. Lob. Obs., 1576,99; ic., 1591, 
L208. 
Raphanus longus. Cam. Epit., 1586, 224. 
Raphanus purpureus minor. Lobel., Lugd., 1587, 636. 
Radicula sativa minor. Dod., 1616, 676. 
Raphanus corynthia. Bodaeus, 1644, 769. 
Long Scarlet. Vilm., 1885, 490. 
Long White Vienna. Vilm., 1885, 492. 
Raphanus albus longus. 
The long white late and large radishes I do not recognize in 
the ancient writings, unless it be the reference by Pliny ™ to the 
size; some radishes, he says, are the size of a boy infant, and 
Dalechamp” says that such can be seen in his day in Thuringia 
and Erfordia. In Japan, so says Kizo Tamari,” a Japanese com- 
missioner to the New Orleans Exposition of 1886, the radishes 
are mostly cylindrical, fusiform or club-shaped, from one-fourth 
of an inch to over a foot in diameter, from six inches to over a 
yard in length, and J. Morrow ™ says that at Lew Chew radishes 
often grow between two and three feet long, and more than 
twelve inches in circumference. In 1604 Acosta” writes that he 
had seen in the Indies “ redish rootes as bigge as a man’s arme, 
very tender and of good taste.” These radishes are probably men- 
tioned by Albertus Magnus” in the 13th century, who says that the 
radix are very large roots of a pyramidal figure, with a somewhat 
sharp savor, but not that of raphanus; they are planted in 
15 Gronovius, Orient., 81. 
76 Hist. Gen., Lugd., 1587, 634. 
7 Am. Hort., Sept., 1886, 9. 
18 Morrow. Perry's Japan, II., 16. 
7 Acosta. Hist. of the Ind., 1604, 261. 
8 Albertus Magnus. De Veg., Jessen Ed., 1867, 556, 645. 
