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In warm weather or dry places, it soon runs to 

 seed. It is very easy to raise corn salad in any 

 cool soil, and an ounce of seed will give from 

 2000 to 3000 plants, which should stand about 

 six inches apart in the rows. 



PARSLEY. 



Parsley is the most popular of all the garnish- 

 ing herbs, and requires no special care from the 

 gardener, so long as it is planted in a cool, 

 moist soU. The leaves are used for salads and 

 for flavoring as well as for garnishing. Parsley 

 seed is slow growing, and unless the garden 

 soil is in excellent tilth and moist to the very 

 surface, it is better to start the plants in a seed- 

 bed. Although the plant is biennial, the foliage 

 is usually gathered the first year and the plant 

 destroyed, unless seed is wanted. In all these 

 green things, it has been found better to adopt 

 the annual treatment rather than let them de- 

 velop into biennials or perennials, though that 

 may be their natural habit : we can improve the 

 nature of plants, animals and men. 



SALAD CHERVIL. 



Although salad chervil closely resembles pars- 

 ley and may be used the same way, it is very 

 little known in this country. It requires about 



