. 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. 294 CHERRY year (1899) canners have paid as high as $160 per ton for white Cherries. The higher rates can only be ex- pected during years of short crops. Edward J. Wickson. CHEBVIL. A term applied to two umbelliferous plants which produce edible parts, neither of which is well known in America. The name is some
. 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. 294 CHERRY year (1899) canners have paid as high as $160 per ton for white Cherries. The higher rates can only be ex- pected during years of short crops. Edward J. Wickson. CHEBVIL. A term applied to two umbelliferous plants which produce edible parts, neither of which is well known in America. The name is sometimes applied, also, tothe sweet cicely. Salad Chervil or Leaf Chervil is Scandix cere folium, Linn., a native of It is annual. The neat and aromatic Ivs. are used like parsley, which they much resemble. The Ivs. are decompound, with oval cut leaf- lets; and there are varieties with much cut and curled foliage. The cultivation of Salad Chervil presents no difficulties. Leaves are ready to use in 6 to 10 weeks fromsccil , mid iinygood garden soil is congenial. Itthrivi - I f 111 III. and raoister part of the year. TuIh r I .ted Chervil is CJuerophylltim I'.ii. It is biennial or plur-annual, like tlic Mill! h iiihI 1 iiirot. The roots are like small carrots in shape (4-") in. long), but are gray or blackish, and the flesh is of different flavor. The roots are eaten as carrots are, either boiled or in stews. The one diffi- culty in the growing of Chervil is the fact that the seeds t'' I'minut, v. rv tindily, or even not at all, if kept dry ,. n: â I- â riiiary, therefore, to sow spring. II III,, :,,, i,!, I, , 1 1 ,cl for spring growing, they should hu .,> ^ .m u .^'ct(Zaf/e) or kept in sand. In four or five months after germination, the roots are fit to use, although they improve in quality by being left in the ground. L. H. B. CHESS, or CHEAT. Bromus. CHESTNUT. Three species of tree or true Chestnuts are
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