KITCHEN-GARDEN PLANTS. CHAP. 



board going an inch over the upper edge of the other, 

 and the boards fastened well with pegs : this will do the 

 business effectually ; for it is the wet that you have to 

 fear, and not the frost. If long and hard frost be appre- 

 hended, a quantity of celery should be taken up and laid 

 in a bed of sand or light earth in a shed or cellar j for, 

 when the ground is deeply frozen, it is sometimes impos- 

 sible to get it out without tearing it to pieces j and it 

 keeps very well for several weeks in a shed or cellar. To 

 have the seed of celery, take one plant or two, in the 

 spring, out of the ridge that stands last. Plant it in an 

 open place, and it will give you seed enough for several 

 years j for the seed keeps good for ten years, at least, if 

 kept pretty much from the air, and in a dry place. 



139. CHERVIL. This, like celery, spinage, and some 

 few other garden plants, is very much liked by some 

 people, and cannot be endured by others. It is an annual 

 plant : its leaves a good deal like those of double parsley : 

 it is used in salads, to which it gives an odour that some 

 people very much like : it bears a seed resembling that 

 of a wild oat ; it is sowed in rows late in March or early 

 in April j and a very small patch of it is enough for any 

 garden : it bears its seed, of course, the first summer, 

 bears it, too, in great abundance, and, if properly pre- 

 served, the seed will last for six or seven years at the 

 least. 



140. GIVES. A little sort of Onion, which is perennial : 

 it may be propagated from seed 5 but the easiest way is 

 by parting the roots which are bunches of little bulbs 

 like those of crocuses or snow-drops. The greens only 



