See also:

• CELERY (Apium graveolens)

CELERY (Apium graveolens)  , a biennial plant belonging to the natural See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order See also:

• UMBELLIFERAE

Umbelliferae, which, in its See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, occurs in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England by the sides of ditches and in marshy places, especially near the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, producing a furrowed stalk and See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound leaves with See also:

• WEDGE (O. Eng. wecg, a mass of metal, cognate with Dutch wig, wigge, Dan. vaegge, &c.; in Lith. the cognate form outside Teut. is found in wagis, a peg, spigot; there is no connexion with " weigh," " weight," which must be referred to the root wegh, to li

wedge-shaped leaflets, the whole plant having a coarse, See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste and a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar See also:

• SMELL (connected etymologically with " smoulder " and " smoke ")

smell . It is also widely distributed in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north temperate region of the Old See also:

• WORLD

World . By cultivation and blanching the stalks lose their acrid qualities and assume the mild sweetish aromatic taste peculiar to See also:

• CELERY (Apium graveolens)

celery as a See also:

• SALAD (Med. Lat. salata, salted, pickled, salare, to sprinkle with salt)

salad plant . The See also:

• PLANTS

plants are raised from See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, sown either in a hot See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed or in the open See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, according to the See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season of the See also:

• YEAR

year, and after one or two thinnings out and transplantings, they are, on attaining a height of 6 or 8 in., planted out in deep trenches for convenience of blanching, which is effected by earthing up and so excluding the stems from the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• LIGHT

light . A large number of varieties are cultivated by gardeners, which are ranged under two classes, See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white and red,—the white varieties being generally the best flavoured and most crisp and See also:

• TENDER

tender . As a salad plant, celery, especially if at all " stringy," is difficult of digestion . Both blanched and See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green it is stewed and used in soups, the seeds also being used as a flavouring ingredient . In the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe celery is seldom blanched, but is much used in its natural See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition . Celeriac, or See also:

• TURNIP

turnip-rooted celery (Apium graveolens See also:

• VAR

var. rapaceum.), is a variety cultivated more on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of its roots than for the stalks, although both are edible and are used for salads and in soups . It is chiefly grown in the north of Europe . As the tops are not required, trenching is unnecessary, otherwise the cultivation is the same as for celery .