Crossword-Solution: ESCULENT 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The remainder of the garden presented a well-selected assortment of esculent vegetables, in a praiseworthy state of advancement.

Then consider what victual or esculent things there are, which grow speedily, and within the year; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes of Hierusalem, maize, and the like.

Their soil teems also with esculent roots and vegetables, which it is the aim of their culture to improve and vary to the utmost.

But there is not a shadow of evidence in favour of this view: to assert that we could not breed our cart and race-horses, long and short-horned cattle, and poultry of various breeds, and esculent vegetables, for an unlimited number of generations, would be opposed to all experience.

Authors have insisted on the necessity of arranging varieties on a natural instead of an artificial system; we are cautioned, for instance, not to class two varieties of the pine-apple together, merely because their fruit, though the most important part, happens to be nearly identical; no one puts the Swedish and common turnip together, though the esculent and thickened stems are so similar.