seer 
Parsley. 
Apium petroselinum. Natura Orver: Umbellifere—Parsley Family. 
seh for one food, chiefly soups, and the garnishment 
| Jiof meat and game dishes when brought to the table. It is 
i very partial to rich soil, and agriculturists say that soot 
ail) placed around the plant is very congenial to it. There are 
Uf cys ae Ms several varieties produced by cultivation, differing in size and 
calso in the curliness of the leaf; which is of a dark green. The seeds 
ie should be soaked in warm water several hours before planting. All 
the varieties are natives of Greece and the island of Sardinia, and are 
a Pt nearly allied to that great table favorite, celery. The name Apium is 
, by some thought to be derived from the Celtic afon, or avon, a river, 
cy, because the plant delights in moist situations; according to others the 
6 ’Apium denotes its relationship to celery, (botanically, Apium, and this 
” from apis, a bee), while Petroselinum is the equivalent to Parsley, 
denoting in Greek, rock-curly, or rock-marsh—se/non, parsley, from elos, a 
marsh, or elisso, I twist. 
Hestivity. 
RIENDSHIP shall still thy evening feasts adorn, 
And blooming peace shall ever bless thy morn. 
—Prior. 
LEST be those feasts with simple plenty crown’d, HE banquet waits our presence, festal joy 
Where all the ruddy family around Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night, 
Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Illumin’d by the taper’s dazzling beam, 
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. Rivals departed day. 
—Goldsmith. —Brown, 
9 fi pity wine should be so deleterious, 
For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. 
—Byron. 
HEN the laugh is lightest, And thou art madly pledging 
When wildest goes the jest, Each gay and jovial guest,— 
When gleams the goblet brightest, 
\ And proudest heaves thy breast, The shade of Love’s departed hours. 
(- 
A ghost shall glide amid the flowers— 
—Mrs. Osgood, 
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