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allow the young plants to remain until the following spring, 

 when they should be set out two feet asunder in each direc- 

 tion. The stalks will be fit for use in May and June of the 

 following year. If the flower-stem is removed as it makes 

 its appearance, the plants will put forth fresh sprouts from 

 the sides of the root, and survive three years ; but when 

 allowed to blossom, and to perfect their seeds, the plants 

 soon after perish. 



Use. Angelica was formerly used, after being blanched, 

 as a salad, like Celery. In the vicinity of London, it is 

 raised to a considerable extent for confectioners, the tender 

 leaf-stalks and flowering-shoots serving as a basis for sweet- 

 meat. The seeds are sometimes employed for flavoring 

 liquors. 



ANISE. 



Pimpinella anisum. 



This is an annual plant, originally from Egypt. Though 

 but little cultivated in this country, neither our soil nor 

 climate is unsuitable ; and it might be successfully, if not 

 profitably, grown in the middle and warmer parts of the 

 Northern States. Large quantities of the seeds are raised on 

 the Island of Malta and in some parts of Spain, and thence 

 exported to England and America for the purpose of distilla- 

 tion or expression. 



The stem is from a foot and a half to two feet high, and 

 separates into numerous slender branches ; the leaves are 

 twice pinnate, those of the upper part of the stalk divided 

 into three or four narrow segments ; the flowers are small, 

 yellowish-white, produced in large, loose umbels, at the ex- 

 tremities of the branches ; the seeds are of a grayish-green 

 color, oblong, slightly bent or curved, convex and ribbed on 

 one side, concave on the opposite, and terminate in a small 



