830 History of Garden Vegetables, 
although the leaves are used as a spinage.? It is now cultivati 
in French gardens for its young leaves, which are eaten in sak 
It is recorded by Burr? as in American gardens in 1863, ye 
have never seen the plant growing. This plant furnishes a po: 
tion of the Jute fibre of commerce. je 
The Few’s mallow, or Corchorus, is called, in Fedde) cont 
potagere, guimauve potagere, mauve des juifs, brede maanani 
in Germany, gemuse- Corchorus, nusskraut ;? in Arabia, malahi 
in Arabic, meloukhyeh;5 in Bengali, pat, koshta, bhungeg bh 
Jee pat;? in Hindustani, singin janaseha ;7 in Sanscrit, m 
in Telegu, parinta. 
I find no varieties recorded. 
CORIANDER. Coriandrum sativum L. 
The ripe fruits of the coriander have served as a spice 4 
seasoning from very remote times, its seeds having been I 
in Egyptian tombs of the twenty-first dynasty,? and a thous 
or so years later Pliny*® says the best came to Italy from fat 
Cato,” in the third century before Christ, recommends ¢ 
as a seasoning; and Columella,” in the first century of our ei i 
and Palladius,* in the third, direct its planting. The pa 
well known in Britain prior to the Norman conquest, and 
carried to Massachusetts before 1670.5 In China it can beider 
tified in an agricultural treatise of the fifth century,and i 1S 
as cultivated by later writers of the sixteenth and eigne 
centuries. In Cochin China it is recorded as less grown that 
China? In India it is largely used by the natives 54° 
Ment," is grown at the Mauritius, and has even rea 
` guay, and is in especial esteem for condimental purposes g5 
parts of Peru. 
Coriander, called coryander and colander by Turner” g 
* Macfadyen, Jam., i. 108. 2 Vilmorin, Les Pl. Fol re 
3 Burr, Field and Gard. Veg., 338. 4 Forskal, Fl. Ægypt- 
5 Delile, Fl, Ægypt, illust é Birdwood, Veg: Prod. ot 
7 Pem Useful Pl. of tad, 159. 8 C. Benson, pas m Gu , 
ure, May 31, 1883, 113. % Pliny, lib. xx. ¢- a 
amag g lib. vi. c. 33; lib. x. c. 244; lib. xi. c. 3- 
X Palladius, lib. iii, c. 245 lib. iv. c. 9, etc. 
Cographia, 1879, 320. 15 Josselyn, Rar. 
16 Bretschneider, Bot, net 59,85. 7 fe Cochinchy 180 
* Dutt, Hindu Mat. Med., 175. %» Bojer, Hort. Maur. 
* Johnson, Useful Pl., 125. at Turner, Libellus, 153% 
