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TURNIP-ROOTED CHERVIL.
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two or three inches above the soil, and taper directly from
the crown to the point. A judicious selection of roots for
seed, continued for a few seasons, would undoubtedly restore
the variety to its primitive form and dimensions.
The same amount of seed will be required as of the Long
Orange : and the general method of culture should be the
same ; with the exception, that, in thinning out the plants,
the White Belgian should have more space.
White Belgian Horn.
Transparent White. Vil.
Root seven or eight inches in length, and two inches in its
greatest diameter, tapering regularly from the crown to the
point. Skin fine, clear white. Flesh very white, and almost
transparent, mild, tender, and delicate.
A French variety, remarkable for the peculiar, pure white
color of its skin and flesh.
TURNIP-ROOTED CHERVIL.
Parsnip Chervil.
Chaerophyllum bulbosum.
A hardy, biennial plant, from the south of
Europe. The root is fusiform, four or five inches
long, and nearly an inch and a half in diameter ;
skin, grayish - black ; flesh, white. The leaves
are compound, the leaflets very deeply cut, and
the divisions of the upper leaves very narrow and
slender. The flowers are white, and terminate the
top of the plant in umbels, or large, circular, flat,
spreading bunches. The seeds are long, pointed,
furrowed, concave on one side, of a brownish
retain their power of germination but one year,
contains sixty-five hundred seeds,
Turnip-rooted
Chervil.
color, and