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and give a peculiar palatability to condimental foods. In Achza 
it is used, so he says, for the victors crown in the Nemean 
games, 
A little later Galen,’ A.D. 164, praises the parsley as among 
the commonest of foods, sweet and grateful to the stomach, and 
that some eat it and Smyrnium mixed with the leaves of lettuce. 
Palladius,” about 210 A. D., mentions the method of procuring 
the curled form from the common, and says that old seed germi- 
nate more freely than do fresh seed (a peculiarity of parsley seed 
at present, and which is directly the opposite to that of celery 
seed). Apicius,** A. D. 230, a writer on cookery, makes use of 
the apium viride, and of the seed. In the 13th century Albertus 
Magnus™ speaks of apium and petroselinum as being kitchen- 
garden plants; he speaks of each as being an herb the first year, 
a vegetable the second year of growth; he says the apium has 
broader and larger leaves than the fetrose/inum, the petroselinum 
has leaves like the cicuta; that the petroselinum is more of a 
medicine than a food. 
At the present time we have for forms the common or plain- 
leaved, the celery-leaved or Neapolitan, the curled, the fern- 
leaved, and the Hamburg or turnip-rooted. 
I. The plain-leaved form is not now much grown, having 
become superseded by the more ornamental curled forms. In 
1552, Tragus” says there is no kitchen-garden in Germany with- 
out it, and it is used by the rich as well as the poor, and Matthio- 
lus, in 1558 and 1570, says it is one of the most common plants 
of the garden. In 1778 Mawe™ says it is the sort most commonly 
grown in English gardens, but many prefer the curled kinds, and 
in 1834 Don™ says it is seldom cultivated. It was in American 
gardens in 1806. 
Petroselinum. Trag., 1552, 459. 
12 Galen. De Alim., Lib. II., Gregorius 1% Tragus. De Stirp., 1552, 459. 
ed., 1547, 154. 127 Matthiolus. Comm., 1558, 362; 1570, 
512. 
14 a De pirid etc., Amster- 128 Mawe. Gard., 1778. 
dam, 1 129 Don. Gard. and Bot. Dict., III., 279. 
18 Albesius Ma Magnus. De Veg., Jessen ed., 10 McMahon. Am. Gard. Cal., 1806. 
1867, passim. 
