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West Indian Gherkin Seeds (Cucumis anguiria)		$2.95
	Jefferson’s President’s House in Washington included a pickle barrel for ... the very small pickling cucumber.” This was likely the West Indian gherkin, a native of Africa brought to the Caribbean through the slave ... Jamaica by Minton Collins in his Richmond store in 1792. The West Indian gherkin is an aggressive vine with smallish leaves that are lobed like a ...