Its popularity and cultivation in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) is generally thought to have started in earnest around 1593 after the Southern Netherlandish botanist Carolus Clusius had taken up a post at the University of Leiden and established the hortus academicus.
Popularitasnya dan budidayanya di Provinsi Serikat (sekarang Belanda) umumnya dianggap telah dimulai dengan sungguh-sungguh sekitar tahun 1593 setelah ahli botani Flemish Carolus Clusius mengambil sebuah jabatan di Universitas Leiden dan mendirikan hortus academicus.