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An annual, growing wild in Battersea fields, and many other parts of this kingdom. It is usually sown in August, and stands the winter perfectly well; it is very similar to lettuce, and is a good substitute for it in the spring and winter seasons. COSTMARY Tanacetum Balsamita. Is used as a herb in salad. This is a perennial plant of easy culture. CRESS. Lepidium sativum.
The radical leaf-stalks of this plant being thick and juicy, and having an acid taste, are frequently used in the spring as a substitute for gooseberries before they are ripe, in making puddings, pies, tarts, &c. If they are peeled with care, they will bake and boil very well, and eat agreeably. ROCAMBOLE. Allium sativum.
It is propagated by planting the bulbs in September and October: they are fit to take up in May and June, when they are dried and kept for use. FENNEL. Anethum Foeniculum. The use of this plant is so well knwon in the kitchen, as to render an account of it useless. It is propagated by sowing seeds in the spring. GARLICK. Allium sativum.
A well known potherb sown in the spring; and the plants, if not suffered to go to seed, will last two years. See aethusa Cynapium, in Poisonous Plants. PARSNEP. Pastinaca sativa. This is a well known esculent root, and is raised by sowing the seeds in the spring. PEA. Pisum sativum. This is a well known dainty at our tables during spring and summer. The varieties in cultivation are,
It requires a good hot dry soil; but although the crop is often of great value, it so much exhausts the land as to be hazardous culture in many light soils where the dunghill is not handy. The seed is about ten pounds per acre, and the crop often five or six sacks. CORIANDRUM sativum. CORIANDER. Is grown in the stiff lands, in Essex, and is an annual of easy but not of general culture.
It is sown in April, and the quantity of seed is about one bushel and a half per acre. PISUM sativum. In the course of twenty-four hours they had swoln very much, when they were put into the ground. An equal quantity were steeped in water; and the same quantity also that had not been steeped, were sown in three adjoining spots of land.
They then wound themselves round it and round one another, until the whole tendril was tied together in an inextricable knot. The tendrils, though at first quite flexible, after having clasped a support for a time, become more rigid and stronger than they were at first. Thus the plant is secured to its support in a perfect manner. LEGUMINOSAE. Pisum sativum.
L. This participates of the virtues of garlic, from which it differs chiefly in being much weaker. See the article ALLIUM. ALLIUM sativum. GARLIC. The Root. L. E. D. This pungent root warms and stimulates the solids, and attenuates tenacious juices. Hence in cold leucophelgmatic habits it proves a powerful expectorant, diuretic, and emmenagogue; and, if the patient is kept warm, sudorific.
Acorus calamus; 3. Allium sativum; 4. Raphanus sativus; 5. Menyanthes trifoliata; 6. Salvia officinalis.
Intermediate, i.e., between deities and human beings; hence, animals and birds. Brahma-Rakshasa is a Rakshasa that belongs, like Ravana and others, by birth to the regenerate order. Masha is Phaseolus Roxburghii, Kulatta is Dolichos biflosus, Roxb. Kalaya is Pisum Sativum, Linn. Mudga is Phaseolus Mango, Linn. Atasi is Linum usitattisimam, Linn. A Kanka is a bird of prey.
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