CHIVE 



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CHIVE 



Outside the market and kitchen garden the hardy perennial 

 chive finds little place in American horticulture. Like most of 

 the alliaceous plants it is of European origin, being accredited 

 in a wild state both to France and to Great Britain. 



FIG. 84. A clump of chives 



Botany. Botanically, the chive is closely related to the common 

 onion, and is known as Allium schcenoprasum. In appearance it 

 resembles garlic, the common wild onion of the Southern states, 

 more closely than it does the onion of the garden (see figure 84). 

 The leaves of the chive are awl-shaped, erect, and cylindrical, and 

 usually 7 or 8 inches in length. The bulbs are small from 



