368 Tlie Principles of Vegetable -Gardening 



Corn salad or fetticus (Fig. 110) is used both as 

 salad and pot-herb, chiefly the former. It belongs to 

 the Valerian family, and is known to botanists as Valer- 

 ianella olitoria. It is native to Europe. The plant is 

 little known in America, but is prized as a fall and win- 

 ter salad abroad. It is very easy of culture in any cool 

 soil. Plants should stand about 6 in. apart in the row. 

 An ounce of seed should give 2,000-3,000 plants. 



PARSLEY 



A cool moist soil is best suited to parsley. Not all the 

 leaves should be removed from the plant at any one time. 

 Parsley demands no special care. 



Parsley is the most popular of all garnishing herbs. 

 The leaves are used also for salads and for flavoring. 



Fig. 111. Parsley seedlings. Natural size. 



The plant is biennial, but the foliage is gathered the first 

 year, and the plants are then destroyed unless seed is 

 wanted. The seed is slow to germinate, and it is best to 

 sow in a seed-bed unless the ground is in excellent tilth 



