 | Horace Walpole - Anecdotes - 1800 - 310 pages
...Before that time hand-mills were ufed. • Vegetable Origins. Turnips and carrots are thought indigenal roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettice from Cos, a name corrupted- into gaufe. Shallots, or efchallots, from Afcalon. I have teen... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Anecdotes - 1800 - 302 pages
...wild in France, and «ven here. The apricot is from Armenia. Turnips and carrots are thought indigenal roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lattice from Cos, a name corrupted into gaufe. Shallots, or efchallots, from Afcalon. " "* -." .... | |
 | English literature - 1801 - 588 pages
...mulberry-tree becomes fatin." " CXIII. Vegetable Origins. — Turnips and carrots are thougjbt indigcnal roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name- computed into Gaufe; ihallots, or efchallors, from Afcalon. I have been, reading on the fubjeâ,... | |
 | 1801 - 584 pages
...mulberry-tree becomes fatin." " CXIII. Vegetable Origins. — Turnips and carrots are thought indigehal roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus; our artichokes from Sicily; lettuce from Cos, a name computed into Gaufe; Ihallots, or efchallots, from Afcaion. I have been reading on the ful ijc.it,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...to those countries through the Romans from Asia Minor, and particularly from the kingdom of Pont us. Turnips and carrots are considered indigenous roots...kitchen gardens was imported from the Netherlands. NOTE NN. THE comparative mortality of London has not only greatly diminished within the last fifty... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...considered as varieties, hecome permanent, and of which the frnits are monsavou ry than the prunus avinm have come to those countries through the romans from...our artichokes from Sicily;; lettuce from Cos ; and shal!ots, or eschallots, from Ascalon. The art of gardening was introduced intoEngland from the continent... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - England - 1819 - 174 pages
...or even its possessors themselves. 8 ORIGIN OF VEGETABLES. Turnips and carrots are thought indigenal roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name corrupted into gause. Shallots, or eschallots, from Ascalon. I have been reading on the subject,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - Boxing - 1820 - 122 pages
...subjects, or even its possessors themselves. Origin of Vegetables. Turnips and carrots are thought indigenous roots of France. Our cauliflowers came...Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name corrupted into gause, shallots, or eschallots from Ascalon. I have been reading on the subject,... | |
 | 1821 - 468 pages
...animal kingdom ?" IV. GENERAL LITERATURE. 1. Origin of Vegetables. — Turnips and carrots are thought indigenous roots of France ; our cauliflowers came...Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name corrupted into Gausc ; shallots, or eschallots, from Ascalon ; the cherry and filbert are from... | |
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Turnips and carrots are thought indigenous roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name corrupted into gause, shallots, or eschallots from Ascalon. 
