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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



CLARY 



Salvia Sclarea^ 'L,, Labiates. Sauge Sclaree. 



Native of South Europe. — Perennial, but cultivated as an annual 

 or a biennial. — An herbaceous plant, with the radical leaves very 

 broad, oval-obtuse, broadly sinuated or toothed, woolly haired, 

 gray-green, and crimped like the leaves of Savoy Cabbage. Stem 



very tall, quadrangular, 

 branching in the upper 

 part and bearing long 

 spikes of white or lilac 

 flowers in clusters of two 

 or three ; seed brown or 

 marbled, smooth, and 

 shining. Their germina- 

 ting power lasts for three 

 years. The plants do 

 not run to seed until the 

 second year from the time 

 of sowing. After they 

 have flowered, it is better 

 to pull them up and 

 replace them by young 

 plants. The seed is sown 

 in April, in drills i6 to 

 20 in. apart, or in a 

 seed-bed, from which the 

 seedlings are pricked out 

 in May at the same 

 distance from one another. During the summer hoeing and 

 watering must not be neglected. In August, the first leaves 

 may be gathered, and the plants will continue to yield up to 

 June or July in the following year. The leaves are used for 

 seasoning. 



CORIANDER 



Coriandrum sativum^ L. UmbeUifercB» 



French^ Coriandre. Gerjimn, Coriander. Flemish, and Dittch^ Koriander. ItaliaJt. 

 Coriandorlo. Spanish^ Culantro, 



Native of Southern Europe. — Annual. — Stem branching, 2 to 

 over 2\ ft. high ; radical leaves not much divided, with incised- 

 toothed leaflets of a rounded shape ; stem leaves very much 

 divided, with linear segments ; flowers small, whitish, in umbels. 

 Seed generally united in pairs, presenting the appearance of a 

 small seed-vessel of the Flax-plant. Each seed is hemisphericalj 



