Chervil 



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The 

 in six 

 in hot 



plant is of easy culture, giving a cutting of leaves 

 to eight weeks from the seed. It does not thrive 

 dry summers, and therefore should be grown as a 

 spring or faJl crop, unless the par- 

 ticular location is cool, as in partial 

 shade or^ with a northward exposure. 

 It is hardy, and where winters are not 

 severe can be carried over the cold 

 season by light coldframes or even by 

 protection of brush. The plant reaches 



57. The long fruits 

 ("seeds") of salad 

 chervil (X 6). 



The slender seedlings of chervil (X 2/3)- 



a height of nearly two feet when mature, but the young 

 foliage is most desired. The plants should stand 8 to 12 

 inches apart. For turnip-rooted chervil, which is another 

 plant, see Chapter VII. 



Salad chervil is Anthrlscus Cerefolium, Hoffm., Gen. Umb. 

 41. 1S14. Vmbelliferce. It is known in literature also as 

 Scandix Cerefolium, Linn. Sp. PI. 257; Chwrophyllum sativutn. 

 Lam. Encyl. i, 684. 1783 ; Cerefolium Cerefolium, Britton, 

 111. Fl. ed. 2, ii, 629. 1913. It is a fine-leaved soft annual 

 of quick growth, native in Europe and sometimes run wild 

 in North America : stem erect, branching, 1 to 2 ft., glabrous : 

 radical and main stem leaves ternately decompound, the ulti- 

 mate leaflets small (% to % in. long), ovate to orbicular 

 and deeply cut : flowers white, minute, in compound umbels : 

 fruit ("seed" of commerce) representing 1 of the 2 carpels 



