40 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



the seeds are used, especially in obstructions 

 of the liver and spleen ; they warm and dry ; 

 they purify, attenuate, and carry off fevers, 

 jaundice, and dropsies. 



The cultivated celeri has come so rapidly 

 into use during these last forty years, that it 

 is now grown at all seasons of the year, and, 

 instead of forming a winter salad only, it 

 is now become a principal vegetable in most 

 soups in which herbs are used. It is also 

 sent to table stewed in white sauce ; and 

 an agreeable conserve is made of blanched 

 celeri, which is good for pains in the chest 

 and windy colic. 



It appears, that celeri-seed will vegetate 

 after it has remained in the earth for several 

 years : an instance of this occurred in the 

 author's garden, where no celery had been 

 planted for three years or more, when he 

 was surprised to find in a large plot of 

 ground where cabbages had been planted, 

 and which succeeded a crop of potatoes, 

 several hundred of fine celery plants. The 

 following year several plants appeared in 

 the same plot, although no celeri had seeded, 

 and the plants had been removed to a distant 

 situation. 



A decoction of celeri drunk as tea, is a 

 diuretic that is said to relieve the gravel. 



