
1890.] History of Garden Vegetables. 45 
(a.) The curled. 
Apium crispum sive multifidum. Ger., 1597, 861, cum ic. 
Apium crispum. Matth. Op., 1598, 562, cum ic. 
(6.) Very curled. 
Apium crispatum. Adv., 1570, 315: Lugd., 1587, 700. 
Apium. Cam. Epit., 1586, 526. 
Petroselinum vulgo, crispum. J. Bauh., 1651, II., Pt. 2, 97. 
Curled. Townsend, 1726, 33; Mawe, 1778; McMahon, 1806, 
27; Thorb. Kal., 1821. 
Apium crispum. Mill. Dict., 1731, ex Mill. Dict., 1807. 
Apium petroselinum. Bryant, 1783, 24. 
Curled or Double. Fessenden, 1828, 222; Bridgeman, 1832. 
Persil frise. L'Hort. Fran., 1824; Vilm., 1883, 404. 
Dwarf curled. Fessenden, 1828, 222; Burr, 1863, 432. 
Curled leaved. Don, 1834, III., 279. 
IV. The fern-leaved has leaves which are not curled, but are 
divided into a very great number of small thread-like segments, 
and is of a very dark green. I first note it in American seed 
catalogues of 1878. It seems, however, to be described by 
Bauhin in his edition of Matthiolus, 1598, as a kind with leaves 
of the coriander, but very many extending from one branch, 
laciniate, and the stem leaves unlike the coriander because long 
and narrow. 
V. The Hamburg parsley is grown for its roots, which are 
used as parsnips are. It seems to have been used in Germany in 
15421 or earlier, but its use was indicated as of Holland origin 
even then in the name used, Dutch parsley. It did not reach 
England until long after. In 1726 Townsend,' a seedsman, had 
heard that “the people in Holland boil the roots of it, and eat it 
as a good dish,” and Miller™ is said to have introduced it in 1727, 
- and to have grown it himself for some years before it became 
appreciated. In 1778™ it is said to be called Hamburg parsley, 
and to be in esteem. In 1783 Bryant mentions its frequent oc- 
currence in the London markets. It was in American gardens in 
1806. 
137 Fuchsius. De Stirp., 1542, 573- 189 Miller's Dict., 1807. 
138 Townsend, Seedsman, 1726, 33. 140 Mawe. Gard., 1778. 
