SALAD 
149 CROPS 
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 soil. 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 
