TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. Memoir on the different Species, Races, and Varieties of 

 the Genus Brassica (Cabbage,) and of the Genera allied to 

 it, which are cultivated in Europe* By M. Augustin 

 Pyramus De Candolle, Professor of Botany in the 

 Academy of Geneva, and Foreign Member of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London. 



Read July 17, and August 7, 1821. 



It has been observed, that most of the culinary and econo- 

 mical plants now cultivated in Europe, came, originally, from 

 some other part of the globe. The Cabbages may be con- 

 sidered as an exception to this remark, as they appear to have 



* In order to afford the British Horticulturist the full advantage of the infor- 

 mation contained in this Memoir, an attempt has been made to add the English 

 names of such of the vegetables described by the learned Professor, as are known 

 and cultivated in the English gardens. The reader will find, in the second" volume 

 of M. De Candolle's Regni Vegetabilis Sij sterna Naturale, under the dif- 

 ferent genera, the various authors who have mentioned or described the species 

 and varieties now noticed. Sec. 



VOL. v. B 



