| Title: | Sea samphire |
| Original Title: | Passe-Pierre |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 12 (1765), p. 124 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Sea samphire." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.239>. Trans. of "Passe-Pierre," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Sea samphire." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.239 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Passe-Pierre," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:124 (Paris, 1765). |
Sea samphire. This plant, which is still called ‘perce-pierre’, is the second species of sea fennel. [1] It grows to a height of one foot and is broadly spreading. Its narrow, salty leaves are divided into three. [2] Umbels of fertile, yellowish flowers appear at the tips of the branches. This plant grows in hot countries - on rocks and by the sea among the shingle, from where they appear to spring up. [3]
The garden plant differs only in that it is less salty. It is pickled in vinegar. It propagates from seed and rooted tillers but cannot tolerate the open air or extreme cold. Consequently, it is sown in boxes transplanted along sheltered walls, in a south- or east-facing site.
Notes
1. Sea samphire or Crithmum maritimum is the only species of Crithmum which, like Foeniculum (fennel), is a genus of the Umbelliferae family.
2. The leaves of Crithmum maritimum are bi- or triternate (Huxley et al., 1992, i.762).
3. Hence the name ‘perce-pierre’, meaning ‘piercing through stones’. Sea samphire is also known as rock samphire.