PARSELEY. 



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This plant is so easily grown that no garden need be 

 without, and yet it is rather rare, especially in the 

 southern markets. Its production scarcely reaches the 

 dignity of a crop, though around New York and Chi- 

 cago, the entire crop would amount to acres. The 

 Germans use both roots and leaves as flavoring, while 

 we, Americans, use only the leaves, and these mainly 

 as a garnishing. 



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FIG. 17. 



Sow the seed closely in rows a foot or eighteen inches 

 apart ; cover the seed a half inch or less deep. Be 

 sure to watch the conditions of moisture, so as to ap- 

 ply water before the soil dries out to the seed. A pretty 

 plan and useful one is to sow the seed in a broad 

 border row around a flower bed ; this remains green 

 during the severest weather that we may have. For 

 this purpose the seed should be sown about the first of 

 November, or in regions north of the lower Gulf re- 



