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Origin of Cultivated Plants

Origin of Cultivated Plants

Candolle, Alphonse De

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1153073196
ISBN13: 9781153073196
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.71 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...ii. p. 640. and to the south of the Caucasus, but he says nothing as to their wild nature; and Karl Koch,1 after travelling through this district, says, speaking of the peach, Country unknown, perhaps Persia. Boissier saw trees growing in the gorges on Mount Hymettus, near Athens. The peach spreads easily in the countries in which it is cultivated, so that it is hard to say whether a given tree is of natural origin and anterior to cultivation, or whether it is naturalized. But it certainly was first cultivated in China1; it was spoken of there two thousand years before its introduction into the Greco-Roman world, a thousand years perhaps before its introduction into the lands of the Sanskrit-speaking race. The group of peaches (genus or subgenus) is composed of five forms, which Decaisne2 regards as species, but which other botanists are inclined to call varieties. The one is the common peach; the second the nectarine, which we know to be derived; the third is the flattened peach (P. platycarpa, Decaisne) cultivated in China; and the two last are indigenous in China (P. simonii, Decaisne, and P. Davidii, Carriere). It is, therefore, essentially a Chinese group. It is diflicult, from all these facts, not to admit the Chinese origin of the common peach, as I had formerly inferred from more scanty data. Its arrival in Italy at the beginning of the Christian era is now confirmed by the absence of peach stones in the terra-mare or lakedwellings of Parma and Lombardy, and by the representations of the peach tree in the paintings on the walls of the richer houses in Pompeii.8 I have yet to deal with an opinion formerly expressed by Knight, and supported by several horticulturists, that the peach is a modification of the almond. Darwin 4 collected facts...

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