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Apple-shaped Celeriac. — A sub-variety of the Early Erfurt 

 kind, with slight, half-erect leaves, and long purplish leaf-stalks. 

 Root very regularly rounded in shape, and entirely free from 

 rootlets on the upper part. 



There is an extraordinarily small kind of Turnip-rooted Celery, 

 the leaves of which are only 4 or 5 in. long, while the root is seldom 



Apple-shaped Celeriac. 



Large Smooth Prague Celeriac. 



larger than a walnut. It is more curious than useful, and is known 

 as the Tom Thumb Erfurt Turnip-rooted Celery. 



Prague Celeriac. — This may be described as a highly developed 

 form of the Erfurt variety, the roots of which are almost spherical, 

 evenly shaped, and without rootlets, except on the under-part. 

 They are usually double the size of those of the Erfurt variety, 

 and the leaf-stalks are somewhat stouter and whiter. ^ 



CHERVIL 



Scandix Cerefolium^ L. ; Anthriscus Cere folium^ Hoffm. Umbellifercs, 



French, Cerfeuil. German, Kerbel. Flemish and Dutch, Kervel. Danish, Have-kjorvel. 

 Italian, Cerfoglio. Spanish, Perifollo. Portuguese, Cerefolio. 



Native of Southern Europe. — Annual. — Leaves very much 

 divided, with oval, incised, pinnatifid leaflets ; stem 16 to 20 in. 

 high, smooth and few-leaved ; flowers small, white, in umbels ; seed 

 black, long, pointed, marked with a longitudinal furrow. Their 

 germinating power lasts for two or three years. The seed may be 

 sown all through the year in the open ground, where the crop is to 

 grow, but in very hot weather it is better to sow in a shady position 

 with a northern aspect According to the season, the leaves may 



