TURXIP-ROOTED CHERVIL. 



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from the crown to the point. Skin fine, clear white. Flesh 

 very white, and almost transparent, mild, tender, and delicate. 

 A French variety, remarkable for the peculiar, pure white 

 color of its skin and flesh. 



Parsnip 

 Chervil. 



TURNIP-ROOTED CHERVIL. 



Chaerophyllum hulbosum. 



A hardy biennial plant, from the south of 

 Europe. The root is fusiform, four or five inches 

 long, and nearly an inch and a half in diameter ; 

 skin, grayish-black ; flesh, white. The leaves are 

 compound, the leaflets deeply cut, and the divis- 

 ions of the upper leaves narrow and slender. 

 The flowers are white, and terminate the top of 

 the plant in umbels, or large, circular, flat, 

 spreading bunches. The seeds are long, pointed, 

 furrowed, concave on one side, of a brownish 

 color, and retain their power of germination but one year. 

 An ounce contains sixty-five hundred seeds. 



Soil and Cultivation. The seeds may be sown in drills, 

 in October or April, in the manner of sowing the seeds of the 

 common carrot ; preference to be given to rich, mellow soil. 

 The roots will attain their full size by the following August 

 or September, when they should be harvested. With a little 

 care to prevent sprouting, they may be preserved until April. 



Seed. The roots intended for seed should be set in the 

 open ground in autumn or in spring. The seeds will ripen 

 in August, and should be sown within a month or two of the 

 time of ripening, or, if kept till spring, should be packed in 

 earth or sand ; for, when these precautions are neglected, 

 they will often remain dormant in the ground throughout 

 the year. 



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