[Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots

[Terry Decker]

Was it valid when it was written?  Or is it an apocryphal story that makes 
for interesting reading but bad history.

I've been through a number of research papers and references and have yet to 
find any reference to sweet or orange carrots originating as a mutation in 
England.  The general consensus is that all modern orange carrots (those 
extremely sweet carrots we get at the supermarket) derive from five to seven 
hybrid strains developed in the Netherlands between the 15th and 18th 
Centuries.  There is disagreement as to what extent the hybridization was 
between cultivated and wild carrots.

There is a possible connection between the Netherlands and England in that 
Flemish refugees settled in England and introduced carrot cultivation to the 
country.

Bear

> But is an article from 30 years ago in this case still valid, given
> all the new research?
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> Johnnae
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> On Feb 28, 2010, at 8:33 PM, Honour Horne-Jaruk wrote:
>>     Unfortunately, the original died in my friend's house fire.
>> IIRC, it was a summer issue in the mid-seventies. Most larger  libraries 
>> have National Geographic collections on disk nowadays; a  search of that 
>> era's disk might prove fruitful.
>>>
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