In warm weather it exhales a delicious aromatic scent.
[Footnote 15: This tuber, which is a well-known and very useful vegetable in England, comes from the root of a species of sunflower (_Helianthus tuberosus_).

It has nothing to do with the real artichoke, which is a huge and gorgeous thistle, and it has equally nothing to do with Jerusalem.

The English people have always taken a special delight in mispronouncing and corrupting words in order to produce as much confusion as possible in their names for things.
Jerusalem is a corruption of _Girasole_, which is the Italian name given to this sunflower with the edible roots, because its flower is supposed always to turn towards the sun.

The Jerusalem artichoke was originally a native of North America.] [Footnote 16: These walnut trees were afterwards known in modern American speech as hickories, butter-nuts, and pig-nuts, all of which are allied to, but distinct from, the European walnut.] All these natives of the Massachusetts coast were described by Champlain as being almost naked in the summertime, wearing at most a small piece of leather round the waist, and a short robe of spun hemp which hung down over the shoulders.

Their faces were painted red, black and yellow.