CORIANDER AND CARAWAY CROPS. 



ALTHOUGH there is a vast number of plants cultivated 

 for the aromatic and carminative properties they possess, 

 these properties generally are more fully developed under 

 the influence of warmer climates than our own, and con- 

 sequently we rely chiefly upon the cultivation of foreign 

 countries for the production of the spices and other aro- 

 matics which we are accustomed to use for our own eco- 

 nomic purposes. In former times, when our intercourse 

 with other countries was more limited than at present, 

 many more of these aromatic plants were grown in this 

 country. At the present day, however, we have but two 

 that enter into field cultivation, and these are only to be 

 met with in certain districts, and there only to a very 

 limited extent. These two are the . CORIANDER and the 

 CARAWAY, both belonging to the same order UMBELLI- 

 FER^E and possessing to a great extent the same agricul- 

 tural characters, so much so, indeed, that they are not 

 uncommonly grown together on the same ground. In this 

 case the coriander, which is annual, comes to maturity, 

 and furnishes the harvest of the first, while the caraway, 

 whose growth is biennial, is left for the next year's crop. 

 Notwithstanding this agricultural connection between 

 these two crops, it will be best to take them separately in 

 our brief sketch of their cultivation. 



The CORIANDER CORIANDRUM SATIVUM is an annual 

 umbelliferous plant, growing wild in the warmer coun- 

 tries of Southern Europe, and also occasionally met grow- 

 ing in that state in the -southern parts of England. It is 



