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Abstract

1.  Ancient and modern literature, as far as accessible to the author, has been studied to find indications of the origin of the European cultivated carrot.
2.  Contrary to most writers on the same subject, it is concluded that there is no evidence that our type of cultivated carrot (Daucus carota s.sp. sativa) was known to the Romans, or to the Europeans at the time of Charlemagne (±800 A.D.) or before.
3.  It is highly probable that the initial European carrot material originally came from the Arab countries, and found its way into Europe in about the 13th and 14th centuries.

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