 | Globe Artichoke Seeds ( Cynara scolymus ). Globe Artichoke was included on one of Jefferson's first lists of vegetables grown at Monticello in 1770. His Garden Book sporadically charted the first to "come to table" and the "last dish of artichokes" from 1794 and 1825. Also known as French Artichoke, this native of southern Europe has been in cultivation since the 1500s. Globe Artichokes are not reliably hardy in Virginia, as Jefferson acknowledged in his letter to his Parisian friend, Madame de Tesse, in 1805: " . . . we can have neither... - Globe Artichoke Seeds ( Cynara scolymus ). |
