Show up PROM THE WILD STATE There arc few more wrongly named things In the world than the Jerusalem ar Ichokc In the first place It never came rom Jerusalem nt all r1ace In the second It Is not really nn artichoke but a sUnflower flower The true artichoke Is a member of the Cynara family while the socalled Jerusalem variety struggles along as beat It can lui ailanthus tubcroaufl It in Imply a ounllowcr with Its tubers developed devel-oped by cultivation Cultivation has done venders for fruit and vegetables For Instance In-stance through lie means peaches nprl cots and nectarines have been developed from the almond to which family all three fruits belong Few people would he prepared to admit that the peach IB an almond yet ouch In the case There IB little apparent connection bn tweun the wild crab of the hedgerows and a Newton pippin but both arc members mem-bers of the aarno semis Indeed It Is I from this same wild crab apple that the whole of the seven hundredodd existing vane UPS of apples have been raised Technically speaking too the pear Is in apple and no IB the medlar and the mountain ash which latter In not nn ash at allIs all-Is a turnip a cabbage Yes one variety nt least of It Is Thin Is the iuccr rcgcta hie > known as kohlrabl which although cln lccJ by scientists amonc the Brasslca or cabbage family has huge roots Just like a turnip It bus been hitherto chlclly grown for cattlefeeding purposes but ban I been found to possess undeniable claims for table purposes HB delicate cabbage like flavor being one of the most Important Import-ant of these Nobody cats vegetable marrowo at dessert des-sert yet the marrow together with tho cucumber Is really n fruit and not a vegetable veg-etable The same remark applies to the tomato which Is really a fruit also although al-though alwayii appearing at horticultural exhibition as a vegetable and beinG catalogued cat-alogued aa such In nurserymens price llMtB One of the Inkiest of modern newspaper news-paper warfares was recently fought out over this question of whether the tomato was a fruit or a vegetable but victory finally rested with the fruitarians The gooseberry Is a currant It Is I not tho least like It In either appearance or flavor yet both belong to tIme same family of rlbes Here again careful cultivation tins succeeded In producing a gooseberry bush without ptlelclen and fruit Innocent of the whlnkerB that are usually found upon tho berries By a little clastic logic It may be proved that lie dandelion Is cheap coffee The dandelion Is I pwn brother to the chicory and the roots of chicory when dried anti ground Into powder form the basis If not the whole of much of the lowerpriced powder that Is sold throughout the country coun-try as coffee ThIn compound Is sold an an admixture of coffee and chicory Is a notice which thousands of grocers have printed upon their coffee wrappers In order to protect themselves from the food adulteration inspector In-spector Coffee and dandelion would be Just as true and appropriate Dandelion Dande-lion roots too nn often used In salads though not many people nre aware of tho fact The onlpn IB a charming little flower Its various species bearing respectively white yellow blue and rosecolored blossoms blos-soms many produced In beautiful droop Ing clusters This reads something like the statement of n driveling Idiot but it Is nevertheless a fact Originally the onion was a flowering plant but the cultivation of certain of Its varieties has produced tho now worldfamous vegetable When Is a chestnut not a chestnut When It Is a horse chestnut This Is another an-other of tho curiosities of the classification classifica-tion of horticultural nomenclature Any ordinary Individual would think Judging by appearance that tho familiar conk er of boyhood days and the edible chestnut chest-nut had at least something In common In their pedigree But no the horse chestnut chest-nut Is Acflculus and the other kind Cnsta nea London Answers |