ALEXANDERS. 30-5 



CHAPTER VII. 

 SALAD PLANTS. 



Alexanders. Brook-lime. Buckshorn Plantain. Burnet. Caterpillar. 

 Celery. Celeriac, or Turnip-rooted Celery. Chervil. Chiccory, or 

 Succory. Corchorus. Corn Salad. Cress, or Peppergrass. Cuckoo 

 Flower. Dandelion. Endive. Horse-radish. Lettuce. Madras 

 Radish. Mallow, Curled-leaf. Mustard. Nasturtium. Garden 

 Picridium. Purslain. Rape. Roquette, or Rocket. Samphire. 

 Scurvy-grass. Snails. Sweet-scented Chervil, or Sweet Cicely. 

 Tarragon. Valeriana. Water-cress. Winter-cress, or Yellow Rocket. 

 Wood-sorrel. Worms. 



ALEXANDERS. 



Alisanders. Smyrnium olusatrum. 



foliage and habit this plant somewhat resem- 

 bles Celery. It is a hardy biennial, with a 

 branching stem, three to four feet in height ; 

 the radical leaves are pale green, compound, 

 those of the stem similar in form, but of 

 smaller size. The branches of the plant terminate in large 

 umbels, or spherical bunches of yellowish flowers, which are 

 succeeded by roundish fruits, each of which contains two 

 crescent-shaped seeds. 



Sowing and Culture. It thrives best in light, deep loam, 

 and is raised from seed sown annually. Make the drills two 

 and a half or three feet apart, and cover the seeds an inch 

 deep. When the plants are two or three inches high, thin to 

 twelve inches apart ; or sow a few seeds in a nursery-bed, 

 and transplant. 



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