"Wild celery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... DROPWORT.—Eleven French prisoners had the liberty of walking in and about the town of Pembroke; three of them being in the fields a little before noon, found and dug up a large quantity of this plant with its roots, which they took to be wild celery, to eat with their bread and butter for dinner. After washing it a while in the fields they all three ate, or rather ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury |
