July 10, 2019 Parsley, Asa Gray, Melville T. Cook, Elvin McDonald, Spiranthes parksii, Roy Lancaster, Theodore Roethke, Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas, Planting Shade Trees, and Bewitched
Are you growing parsley?
I do.
But, I generally only plant the flat leaf variety - since the curly leaf parsley is used mainly as a garnish.
Parsley is a member of the Umbelliferae family, which also includes celery, carrots, dill, cilantro, caraway, cumin, and the poisonous hemlock.
Brevities
#OTD On this day in 1838, the botanist Asa Gray resigned from the Wilkes Expedition.
Gray was frustrated by all of the delays.
He also disagreed with Captain Charles Wilkes.
Gray and Wilkes disagreed about the Latin descriptions of the new taxa. In addition, Wilkes wanted to work with Americans only…
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