245 The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



All which I fhall treat of in the or^ 

 dcr that thcv are fet down in the above* 

 faid lift. 



SECT. VI. CHAP. XLVIII. 



Of fellery, alifanderSy fennel, fuccory, 

 endive, and other [diet herbs that are 

 *whitned or blanched, 



OF all the herbs for fallethig that 

 are blanched, the feilery, or apitim 

 Italicimy (of the petrofeline family) as 

 Mr. Evelyn phrafcs it, is the chiefeft and 

 heft. It was not long ago a ftranger with 

 us in England, (as that elaborate author 

 obfcrves) and not long very well known 

 in Italy it felf, that now boafts of the 

 honour of its original and produdion; 

 being for the moft part accounted no 

 other than a generous fort of Macedo- 

 nian parfley, or fmallage, and fo I have 

 confidered it. 



The apitim, comprehending the whole 

 lift of the petrofeline family, is fo term- 

 ed (as the learned Stephens and Brown 

 fet down, u-iXivov dirl Ttjg (TtXriv'/ig) from 

 that * lunary efFed it is faid to have 



« Vid. Catal. Hort. Botan. Oxcp. /. 1 8. 



