82 PARSLEY. CELERY. 
ness. They have long been employed in medicine, 
and have been considered useful in diseases of the 
lungs and complaints of the stomach. They give out 
all their virtue to rectified spirit; and a spirituous 
water prepared from a mixture of equal parts of anise- 
seed and angelica, is kept in the shops as a cordial. 
93. PARSLEY (Apium petroselinum) is an annual um- 
belliferous plant, too common to need any description. 
The uses of parsley, in our kitchens, both for sauce and 
garnish, are numerous and well known. It is, however, 
poisonous to several kinds of birds ; and, although'so 
commonly used at table, facts have been adduced from 
which it would appear that, with some persons, it 
occasions epilepsy, or at least aggravates the fits in 
those who are subject to that disease. Inflammation 
in the eyes has also been attributed to the use of it. 
Parsley is eaten with great avidity by sheep, and has 
been recommended for use in several diseases of those 
animals, as well as in some diseases of horses. Both 
the roots and seed are employed in medicine. The 
former have a sweetish taste, accompanied with a 
slight warmth, and a flavour somewhat resembling that 
of the carrot : the latter are warm and aromatic. 
Parsley is a native of Sardinia, and propagated 
by seed, which is usually sown about the month of 
March. 
94. CELERY (Apium graveolens) is a well known plant 
Iclongirig to the same tribe as parsley. 
In a wild state celery is found in ditches and marshes 
of several parts of England, and is a small, acrid, and 
noxious plant, called smallage: but, when cultivated, it 
entirely loses these properties. 
It is grown in trenches, and is earthed up for the 
purpose of blanching or whitening the lower parts-. 
The seeds are sown in spring, and the plant? may 
be taken out for use towards the end of the autumn. 
