The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste (1846) (14777415501)

Identifier: horticulturistjo10alba (find matches)
Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden



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THE NEW CUINESE POTATO. This new potato was, severalyeai-s since, transmitted, alongwith other useful and promisingagricultural plants, by M. de Mon-tigny, who is C nsul for France atthe Port of Shanghai, in NorthernChina. The name which he be-stowed upon it was that of Dios-corea japonica; but it has beenconsidered by Professor Decaisne,of the Parisian Museum of NaturalHistory (Jardin des plantes), andacknowledged by Professor Lindleyand others, that Dioscorea batataswould not only be a more popularand familiar, but a more appropri-ate name, seeing that although theplant may in its origin be Japan-ese, of its cultivation in that darkinterior we know literally nothing;whilst its culture in the northernparts of China, and in latitudesassimilated to our own in point ofclimate, being a fact quite acces-sible in all its details, ought not tobe submerged under the name thatassociates it with the very exclu-sive territory of Japan. The plant,or rather tuber, is doubtless a Di-oscorea, or ya