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excellent honey: where there, is room, it is worth while 
to plant goofeberries, currants, fweet marjoram, pepper¬ 
mint, or the like. Though I am not for preventing bees 
from (warming when they are inclined, yet I acknowledge 
that it is (onietimes necellary to deftroy Come (locks. It 
they have loll their mother, and neither fwarm nor work 
much, they (hould not be kept. The moth, or other ac¬ 
cident, will fometimes (poil them, and then they (hould 
be deflroyed. If bees continue in one hive for four or five 
years, they always degenerate, and become both fewer and 
weaker: the reafon is, the combs for breeding are gene¬ 
rally made on purpofe, and larger than the reft; every 
time a bee is hatched in one, a (kin or coat is left behind, 
which reduces the fize ; and in time it becomes too (mall 
to produce a bee of its proper dimenfions, and occalions a 
neceflity for their having frequently new habitations, which 
they will always accept, if you provide them a good littia- 
tion and clean hives.” 
A'PISH, adj. Having the qualities of an ape ; imita¬ 
tive. Foppifli ; afteftedl Silly; trifling, infignificant.— 
All this is but apijk fophiftry ; and to give it a name di¬ 
vine and excellent, is abulive and unjuft. Glanville. Wan¬ 
ton ; playful. 
Gloomy fits the queen, 
Till happy chance reverts the cruel feene; 
And apijh folly, with her wild refort 
Of wit and jell, difturbs the folemn court. Prior. 
A'PISHLY, adv. In an apifli manner; foppilhly ; 
conceitedly. 
A'PISHNESS,/. Mimickry; foppery; infignificance ; 
playfulnefs. 
.APIT'PAT, adv. [a word formed from the motion.] 
With quick palpitation.—O there he comes. Welcome my 
bully, my back : agad, my heart has gone apiipat for you. 
Congreve. 
A'PIUM, [from apes , bees, becaufe thefe infefls are 
faid to delight in it; or from apex, the head, which on 
fome occalions was crowned witii this herb.] In botany, 
a o-enus of the pentandria digynia clafs, ranking in the 
natural order of umbellatae or umbellifene. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : umbel univerfal of fewer rays ; 
partial of more. Involucre univerfal fmall, of one or 
more leaflets ; partial fimilar: proper perianth obfolete. 
Corolla: univerfal uniform ; flofcules almoft all fertile; 
proper, petals roundifh, index, equal. Stamen: filaments 
fimple ;’ anthers roundifh. Piftillum : germ inferior; 
(Ivies reHex ; (tigmas obtufe. Perica’-pium : none ; fruit 
ovate, (Iriated, fplitting in two. Seeds: two, ovate, filiated 
on one fide, plane on the other.— EJfeniial Character. Fruit 
ovate, flriateti ; involucre one leafed ; petals equal. 
Species, i. Apium petrofelinum, or parfley : Stem- 
leaves wedge-fhaped. Of this there are tne following 
varieties: i. Apium fativum, or common parfley. The 
denis of parfley are round, fmooth, (Iriated. Ufually there 
is one leaflet at the origin of the univerfal umbel, and an 
involucre of (ix or eight fhort folioles fine almoft as hairs 
to the partial umbel. Flowers pale yellow, regular; pe¬ 
tals fmall, long, narrow, acuminate, index. Seed fliort, 
tunnd. The common parfley, which is generally cul¬ 
tivated for culinary life, is a biennial plant, and is faid 
by Linnaeus to be found wild in Sardinia, by brooks. 
The roots of parfley are fometimes uled in apozems, 
and fuppofed to be aperient and diuretic, but liable to 
produce flatulencies. When large quantities are diddled, 
two or three drams of elfential oil ieparate from 200 
pounds. The leaves are warmer, but lefts fweet than the 
roots; they yield about ten drams of effential oil from 
200 pounds. The feeds are warmer and more aromatic 
than any other part, and are accompanied with a confi- 
derable bitternefs ; they are accounted carminative, re- 
folvent, and diuretic, and are recommended in the Ger¬ 
man ephemerides for deftroying cutaneous infetls in chil¬ 
dren. In diftillation, three pounds yield above an ounce 
pf eiftntial oil. Parfley is fgid to be fatal to fmall birds. 
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It lias fometimes been accufed of caufing epileptic (ymp- 
toms, and of aggravating tiiat complaint where it al¬ 
ready exifts : it has been faid alfo to injure the eyes. A 
cataplafin of the leaves is reported to be refolvent and 
dilcutient, if applied to glandular tumours: and alfo to 
be an efficacious remedy in curing the bites or flings of 
poifonous inlects. According to Conte, the human calcu¬ 
lus in a decodlion of tlie leaves becomes triable ; and 
hence the plant lias been confidered as of great efficacy in 
cafes ol the ftone. For the diftinction between this and 
fool’s-parlley, fee Aethusa. ii. Apium crifpunt, curled 
parfley. The Cured way to avoid any hazard, is to cul¬ 
tivate the curled parfley; which Mr. Miller affirms will 
remain conftant, provided care be taken to (eparate all 
the plants which have thin leaves, when feed is to be 
faved from them. Columna informs us, that this variety 
is a native of Sardinia, and lias been diftributed from that 
ifland into the reft of Europe, iii. Apium latifolium, 
large-rooted parfley or Hamburgh parfley, is chiefly cul¬ 
tivated for its roots, which are now pretty commonly fold 
in the London markets; the leaves have much longer 
fcotilalks, and their fubdivifions are not fo numerous as 
in the common parfley ; the leaflets are much larger, and 
of a darker green, fo that it is eafily diftinguiflied from 
the common the common lort by its leaves, but the roots 
are fix times as large as the common parfley can be 
brought to witii the utmoft culture. This fort was many 
years cultivated in Holland before the Englilh gardeners 
could be prevailed upon to low it. It is now however 
more familiar to us, and the roots arc much efteemed in 
foups : in Holland they have long brought the roots to 
to market in bunches, as we do young carrots. It is in 
feafon with us from July to Cliriftmas, or March, accord¬ 
ing to tire feafon. 
2. Apium graveolens, or fmallage : ftem-leaves rvedge- 
fliaped. Of this there are alio three varieties. This fpecies 
grows in ditches and marflies, flowering from July to Sep¬ 
tember. Biennial. The frefh roots, efpccially in their native 
watery places, are fetid, acrid, and fuppofed to be noxious. 
By drying, they lofe the greatefl part of their ill flavour, 
and become fweetifh. I:i this (late they have been em¬ 
ployed in apozems, as aperients and diuretics. The 
feeds have been fometimes ufed as carminatives and ape¬ 
rients. They have a moderately (Irong grateful fmell, 
and a warm bitteriHi fade. Mi'. Miller affirms that lie 
cultivated fmallage forty years, to try if by art it could 
be brought to the fame goodnefs as celeri; but all that 
he could do was to bring it to a larger (ize, and by earth¬ 
ing to give it a whitenefs : it would not grow tall, 1101 
rile with a (Iraight (lem, but lent out many fuckers near 
the root, and after it was blanched, retained its (Irong, 
rank, tafto. In more fouthern climates, however, this 
change lias been effected with fuccefs'; and Ray affirms 
that celeri, left to itfelf, will return after fome years to 
fmallage. i. Apium-dulce, or upright celeri, Smallage, 
as improved bv culture, has taken the Italian name of ce- 
leri, and in this (fate is reckoned not only lyholelbme, 
but ferviceable for (frengthening the do mac h and alibiing 
digeftion. It is a good antifeorbutic, but (aid to ble 
hurtful to perfons predifpofed to epileptic complaints. 
Tlie,expreHed juice, taken to the quantity of lix ounces, 
in the beginning of the (baking (it, it is (aid to conquer 
an intermittent by exciting fweat. The juice is alfo e- 
fteenied efficacious in calculous cafes, like that of par- 
ftey. The blanched (talks have a (weetilh warm fade, 
without any of the bad flavour of the wild plant. It is 
fcarcely necellary to mention, that they are in great re- 
queft in foups, for dewing, and as a raw fttfad herb, from 
Auguft to Cliriftmas, or even March, if the winter be not 
too fevere, or if the beds be covered with (fable muck or 
haulm in cafe of hard frolt. The London gardeners cul¬ 
tivate two varieties; 1. the hollow celeri, which has been 
long known ; and 2. the (olid, which is of later introduc¬ 
tion, and is preferred by fome, for (oups and dewing j 
but is not fo proper for the main winter crop, becaufe it 
will 
