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128 History of Garden Vegetables. [ Feb, 
II. The Globular-headed. To this form belong two of Vil- 
morin’s varieties, and various other varieties as described by 
other parties. The synonymy which seems to apply is: 
Scolymus. Fuch., 1542, 792, cum ic. 
Cardut alterum genus. Tragus, 1552, 866. 
Carduus, vulgo Cariciofi. II. Matth., 1558, 322. 
Carduus non aculeatus. Cam. Epit., 1586, 437, cum ic.; Matth., 
1598, 497, cum tc. 
Right Artichoke. Lyte’s Dod., 1586, 603. 
Cinara maxima ex Anglia delata. Lob. ic., 1591, ii. 3. 
Cinara maxima alba. Gerarde, 1597, 991, fig. 
Cinara maxima anglica. Gerarde, l. c. 
Green or White. Quintyne, 1593, 187; 1704, 178. 
Red. Quintyne, l. c. 
Globular-headed Red Dutch. Mawe, 1778. 
Globe Artichoke. Mill. Dict., 1807; Am. Gard. Books, 1806, 
1819, 1828, etc. 
Gros vert de Laon. Vilm. 1883. 
Violet de Provence. Vilm., 1. c. 
tc. 
In growing five of Vilmorin’s varieties from seed, variability 
_ was such that we had nearly as many varieties as plants, and 
among other sorts had one which in its head was precisely 
the Cinara major Boloniensts of the “ Hortus Eystettensis,”* 1613; 
and another, which was the Cinara seu Artischoche vulgatiss. of 
the same. 
The color of the heads also found mention in the early writers. 
In our first division, the French, the green is mentioned by Tra-’ 
gus in 1552, by Mawe in 1778, and by “ Miller’s Dictionary” in 
1807; the purple by Quintyne in 1693. Inthe Globe class the 
white is named by Gerarde in 1597, and by Quintyne in 1693; 
and the Red by Gerarde in 1597, by Quintyne in 1693, and by 
Mawe in 1778; and Parkinson, in 1629, names the red and the 
white. | 
‘The so-called wild plants of the herbalists seem to offer like 
variations to those we have noted in the cultivated forms, but the 
difficulty of identification renders it inexpedient to state a fixed 
conclusion, The heads are certainly no larger now than they 
— were tree Dundee amity years ago, for the “ Hortus cee 
. es a eo 5. 
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