hey retain their vitality two years.

_Sowing and Culture._--It is generally grown from seeds, which are sown
annually in April or May, in drills fifteen or eighteen inches apart,
and half or three-fourths of an inch deep. When the young plants are two
or three inches high, thin them to ten or twelve inches apart, and treat
the growing crop in the usual form during summer. The leaves will be in
perfection in the ensuing autumn, winter, and spring; and the plants
will blossom, and produce their seeds, in the following summer.

_Use._--The leaves are used for flavoring soups, to which they impart a
strong, peculiar flavor, agreeable to some, but unpleasant to most
persons. It has some of the properties of Common Sage, and is
occasionally used as a substitute.

The plant is seldom employed in American cookery, and is little
cultivated.

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CORIANDER. _Law._

Coriandrum sativum.

A hardy annual, supposed to have been introduced from the south of
Europe, but now naturalized in almost all temperate climates where it
has once been cultivated.

Stem about two feet in height, generally erect, but, as the seeds
approach maturity, often acquiring a drooping habit; stem-leaves more
finely cut or divided than those proceeding directly from the root, and
all possessed of a strong and somewhat disagreeable odor. The generic
name is derived from _Koris_ (a bug), with reference to the peculiar
smell of its foliage. Flowers white, produced on the top of the plant,
at the extremities of the branches, in flat, spreading umbels, or
bunches; seeds globular, about an eighth of an inch in diameter, of a
yellowish-brown color, with a warm, pleasant, aromatic taste,--they
become quite light and hollow by age, and are often affected by insects
in the manner of seed-pease. Though they will sometimes vegetate when
kept for a longer period, they are not considered good when more than
two years old.

_Propagation and Cultivation._--Like all annuals, it is propagated from
seed, which should be sown in April or May, in good, rich, mellow soil
well pulverized. Sow in drills made fourteen or sixteen inches asunder
and about three-fourths of an inch in depth, and thin to nine inches in
the rows. It soon runs to flower and seed, and will be ready for
harvesting in July or August.

In the south of England, Coriander is generally cultivated in connection
with Caraway; eighteen pounds of Caraway seed being m