Celery Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board". Celery makes a minor appearance in colonial American gardens; its culinary limitations are reflected in the observation by the author of "A Treatise on Gardening, by a Citizen of Virginia" that it is "one of the species of parsley." Its first extended treatment in print was in Bernard M'Mahon's "American Gardener's Calendar" (1806). After the mid-19th century, continued selections for refined crisp texture and taste brought celery to American tables, where it was served
Pineda (plant) "Prockia", "Banara", "Hasseltiopsis", and "Neosprucea". "Pineda" was named in honor of Antonio Pineda, a Guatemalan botanist who was coordinator of the naturalists aboard the Pacific expedition of Alessandro Malaspina. "Pineda incana" is known as "lloqui," "lloque," "lloquecillos," or "manzanitas cimarronas," and "Pineda ovata" is known as "duraznillo." "Pineda ovata" is commonly misidentified as "Prockia crucis" (Salicaceae). Pineda (plant) Pineda is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae. It contains two species of shrubs: "Pineda incana", which is native to the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, and "Pineda ovata", which is native to the Andes of Bolivia. "Pineda"