. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. as beets or turnips, or else cut up into small pieces and used raw ; when boiled, sliced and served with oil and vinegar, it forms the dish known as "celery ; An extract may be obtained from it which is said to have certain medicinal properties. jj. p. Gould. CELEEY {Apiiim graveolens, Linn.). T
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. as beets or turnips, or else cut up into small pieces and used raw ; when boiled, sliced and served with oil and vinegar, it forms the dish known as "celery ; An extract may be obtained from it which is said to have certain medicinal properties. jj. p. Gould. CELEEY {Apiiim graveolens, Linn.). TTmhelllferct. Annual or biennial plants: leaf-stalks G-15 in. long, bearing 3 pairs and a terminal leaflet, all of which are coarsely serrate and more or less ternately lobed or divided: ttower stalk 2-3 ft. high, branched and leafy, bearing nu- merous rather small compound umbels of inconspicuous white flowers: fruit small, flattened on the sides, broader than long. An ounce contains between 60,000 and 70,000 seeds. Celery is known in America only as a garden vegetable, and is cultivated mainly for the leaf stalks, which are blanched and eaten raw with salt, made into salads, or boiled and served like asparagus. Celery roots, leaves and seeds are also used in fla- voring soups, meats, etc. The garden form resembles wild celery, which grows over a wide range in Europe and Asia, but the plants are less acrid and pungent and the leaf-stalks are much larger and more meaty and solid. Ancient writers left little definite information about this plant, and it is doubtful if its cultivation as a staple gar- den vegetable really began until after the Middle Ages. Previous to that time it does not appear to have been clearly distinguished from parsley, which was mainly used at funeral ceremonies, and not at all as a salad plant. It is supposed that the Selhion mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey was wild celery, and it has also been stated that Dioscorides distinguished between the wild an
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