The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Coriander
CORIANDER.
Coriándrum Satìvum.—Coriandre, Fr.—Koriander, Ger.
A native of the southern parts of Europe, and of China. It is a hardy annual, and propagated from seed sown in Autumn, in an open situation, on a bed of good, fresh earth. The dried seeds of Coriander have a tolerably grateful smell, with a moderately warm and slightly pungent taste. They are carminative (soothing or softening) and stomachic; and are commonly sold by the confectioners, encrusted with sugar.