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;2lpiuin pctrosdinum. Natural Order: UmbcUiferce— Parsley Family. 



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•^] \RSLEY, a well known herb from the kitchen garden, is 



\f\ us(.(l for flavoring food, chiefly soups, and the garnishment 



it nuat and game dishes when brought to the table. It is 



iLi\ partial to rich soil, and agriculturists say that soot 



[..r^-j'^'.^ placed around the plant is very congenial to it. There are 



--lc/^se\eial varieties produced by cultivation, diflering in size and 



^k'' also in the curliness of the leaf, which is of a dark green. The seeds 



J should be soaked in warm water several hours before planting. All 



Sy> the varieties are natives of Greece and the island of Sardinia, and are 



.nearly allied to that great table favorite, celery. The name Apium is 



by some thought to be derixed from the Celtic apoii, or avon, a river, 



because the plant delights in moist situations; according to others the 



?^" Apium denotes its relationship to celery, (botanicall)-, Apium, and this 



<^ from opis, a bee), while Petroselinum is the equivalent to Parsley, 



denoting in Greek, rock-curl}-, or rock-marsh — scliuou, parsle\', from elos, a 



marsh, or clisso, I twist. 



FRIENDSHIP shall still thy evening feasts adorn, 

 And blooming peace shall ever bless thy morn. 



■p LEST be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, 

 ^-^ Where all the ruddy family around 

 Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, 

 Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. 



n^HE banquet waits our presence, festal joy 

 Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night, 



''is pity wine should be sc 

 For tea and coffee leave 



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lEN the laugh is lightest, 



\\'hen wildest goes the jest, 



len gleams the goblet brightest, 



And proudest heaves thy breast. 



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