BOOK XIX. XXXVI. 122-xxxvni. 125 



basil, radish and lettuce put out new shoots that 

 can be used ; lettuce is thought to be even sweeter 

 if grown from a fresh sprouting. Anyway radish is 

 niore agreeable when its leaves have been stripped 

 off before it runs to stalk. Thc same is also true in 

 the case of turnips, for they likewise if banked up 

 mth earth after the leaves have been pulled off go on 

 growing and last into summer. 



XXXVII. Basil, sorrel, spinach, ci-ess, rocket, Varietits, 

 orage, coriander and dill are plants of which there is fj^f^^n. 

 only one kind, as they are the same in every locality ginim 

 and no bettcr in one place than another. It is a '"'"* 

 common beHef that rue which you have stolen grows 

 better, just as stolen bees are beUeved to do very 

 badly. Wild mint, cat-mint, endive and pennyroyal 

 spring up even A^-ithout being sown. On the other 



hand plants which we have mentioned and are going 



to mention have several varieties, and particularly 



parsley. The parsley that grows wild in damp Ceifru. 



places has a Greek name meaning marsh-parsley « ; it 



has a single leaf and is not of shaggy growth ; again, 



the Greek name of another, a many-lcaved parsley 



resenibling marsh-parsley,but growing in dry places, 



is horse-parsley ; a third kind is called mountain- AiexandeTs. 



parsley in Greek — it has the leaves of hemlock, a thin Parsiey. 



root, and seed Uke that of dill only smaller. More- 



over cultivated parsley also has varieties in the leaf, 



which is bushy and crinkled or scantier and smoother, 



and also in the stalk, thinner or thicker, and in some 



plants the stalk is white, in others purple, in others 



mottled. 



XXXVIII. The Greeks have distinguished three vaHetietof 

 kinds of lettuce, one with so broad a stalk that it ' "**" 



is said that the wicket-gates of kitchen gardens are 



