Upturn petrosflinum. Natural Order: Umbelliferce—Parsley Family. 
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PARSLEY, a well known herb from the kitchen garden, is 
| used for flavoring food, chiefly soups, and the garnishment 
| of meat and game dishes when brought to the table. It is 
' very partial to rich soil, and agriculturists say that soot 
^placed around the plant is very congenial to it. There are 
^several varieties produced by cultivation, differing in size and 
"also in the curliness of the leaf, which is of a dark green. The seeds 
.should be soaked in warm water several hours before planting. All 
the varieties are natives of Greece and the island of Sardinia, and are 
,nearly allied to that great table favorite, celery. The name Apium is 
by some thought to be derived from the Celtic apon , or avon, a river, 
because the plant delights in moist situations; according to others the 
Gpy)' Apium denotes its relationship to celery, (botanically, Apium, and this 
from apis, a bee), while Petroselinum is the equivalent to Parsley, 
denoting in Greek, rock-curly, or rock-marsh— selinon , parsley, from elos, a 
marsh, or elisso , I twist. 
‘P'RIENDSHIP shall still thy evening feasts adorn, 
And blooming peace shall ever bless thy morn. 
TALEST be those feasts with simple plenty crown’d, 
Where all the ruddy family around 
Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, 
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. 
— Goldsmith. 
TITHEN the laugh is lightest, 
* V When wildest goes the jest, 
When gleams the goblet brightest, 
And proudest heaves thy breast, 
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— Prior. 
HE banquet waits our presence, festal joy 
Laughs in the mantling goblet, and the night, 
Illumin’d by the taper’s dazzling beam, 
Rivals departed day. 
— Brown. 
And thou art madly pledging 
Each gay and jovial guest,— 
A ghost shall glide amid the flowers — 
The shade of Love’s departed hours. 
— Mrs. Osgood. 
'T'is pity wine should be so deleterious, 
A For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. 
—Byron. 
