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Etymology. — I)auc-us is from the (ireek. word, havKos, a carrot. Carrot is 

 said to come from the Celtic word k(ir, red. Sativa, the sj)ecific name, is 

 Latin, meaning " sown " or " cultivated." 



History. — When or where the carrot wa.s first introduced into culinary use 

 is not known. It was known to the Greeks and Romans at least three hundred 

 years before the heginning of the Christian era. 



Use. — The carrot is an important culinary vegetable, used to Havor soups, 

 sauces, etc., and is eaten with meats ; boiled and reduced to a pulp it is used 

 for pies and custards. It is a very important feed for horses and cattle, and 

 especially for milch cows. 



CARUM, L. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals want- 

 ing, or very small. Petals white, o, unequal, dilated, emarginate, 

 sub-two-lobed or entire, point short, sometimes long and turned in. 

 Fruit oval or oblong-ovoid, compressed, and without wings ; carpels 

 5-ribbed, lateral ribs marginal ; umbels perfect. Leaves pinnate. 

 Biennial. 



I. C. petroselinum, Willd. (Parsley.) Stem angular or striate, 2 to 4 feet 

 high, branchetl. Leaves smooth and glabrous, decompound, parts incised 

 segments of the lower 

 ones wedge - shaped, 

 terminal ones trifid. 

 Flowers in terminal 

 and axillary umbels. 

 Involucre, a single lin- 

 ear leaHet, occasionally 

 made up of two or 

 more bracts. Petals 

 roundish, incurved, 

 greenish. Fruit ovate. 

 Carpels ;)-ribl)ed. 

 July. 



In common with all 

 plants that are propa- 

 gated from seed, pars- 

 ley sports freely, hence 

 cultivation develops vii- 

 rieties. Dwarf Curled, 

 Mitchell's Matchless, 

 Myatt's Triple Curled, 

 Hamburg Large-Rooted and Naples or Celery Parsley, are the most prominent 



(Teo(]rnphy. — V^YAQ\ is found in the middle and .southern edge of the north 

 temperate zone, and grows well in moderately fertile soil. 



Etymology. — Cnrnm, the generic name of the parsley, is from Caria, in 

 Asia Minor, where it was first brought to the notice of man. Petroselinum, 

 the specific name, is from the (ireek TreVpa a rock, and a4\ivov, parsley, hence 

 rock parsley, due to the place where ii grows, — among the rocks. Pnrslei/, 

 the common name, is a corruption of Petrosflimim 



Hislori/. — Viu-Aoy is found wild in the Mediterranean countries of Europe 

 and in Asia .Minor. It has been seen in .lapan under cnltivation, and is common 



Caru.m petroselinum (Parsley). 



