1887] PN Stor of Garden Vegetables, 705 
CELERY. Apium graveolens L. 
I have previously given the history of celery in the AMERICAN 
NaturaLIsT for July, 1886. I can add only a few references to 
‘those therein given. “ Le Jardinier Solitaire” (1612) gives direc- 
tions for the cultivation of “Celery” in France, and Mentzel* 
“gives the word “Sellerrey” in Belgium, and “Sellerey oder 
Aeppich” in Germany, with “ Tabernemontanus” as a reference. 
Now, one edition of “ Tabernemontanus” was published in 1588, 
and if this reference be correct we are able to carry the use of 
the word celery into the sixteenth century. Albertus Magnus,’ 
who lived in the thirteenth century, evidently speaks of the wild 
plant when he calls it aquatic, but describes characters which 
apply to the smallage by adding that it has a concave foot-stalk, 
recumbent and white. 
‘In China, at the present time, the name of celery is Ch'in ts'ai3 
ees CHARD. Seta vulgaris L. 
The chard was the Beta of the ancients and of the middle ages. 
The red chard was noticed by Aristotle* about 350 B.C.. Theo- 
phrastus’ knew two kinds,—the white, called Sicula, and the 
black (or dark green), the most esteemed.: Dioscorides® also 
records two kinds. ‘Eudemus, quoted by Athenzus7 (the second 
century), names four,—the sessile, the white, the common, and 
the dark, or swarthy. Among the Romans the chard finds fre- 
quent mention, as by Columella, Pliny,? Palladius,” Apicius,™ etc. 
In China it was noticed i in writings of the seventh or eighth cen- 
tury, the fourteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries ; A 
- Europe, by all the ancient herbalists. 
he chard has no Sanscrit name. The ancient Greeks called 
æ 
* Mentzel, Index Nominum, 1682, 30. 
2 Albertus Magnus, De Veg., Jessen ed., 1867, 480. 
3 Gard. Chron., July 10, 1886, 41. i 
; 4 Aristoteles, Scaliger’s ed., 1566, 69. 
; 5 Theophrastus, Bodzeus a Stapel ed., 1644, 778. : 
ey -  § Matthiolus, serene 1558, 248. Se 
Bes 7 Quoted from Turre, Dryadum, etc., 1685, 442. ge es 
An 8 Columella, i x. 452; ib. Zi. Cc. a etc. U i as 
9 Pliny, lib. xix. c. 40. = 23 n 
t0 Palladius, lib. iii. c. 24; iv. 9; v. 33 Vi. 4; viii. 2. Oe 
™ Apicius, lib. iii. c. 2, ii. | 
12 Bretschneider, Bot. Sin., 53, 59, 79, 83. 
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