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flavor, in soil which is simply uniformly moist and cool. The 

 plants may be gathered from brooks or other places where it is 

 established and planted at intervals under either north or south 

 benches, and when once colonized it needs no renew^ing. 



The ordinary French or garden cress (varieties of Lepidium 

 sativurri) also thrives we]] under glass. We have grown both, the 







73.— Water-cress uader a greenhouse bench. 



plain and curled-leaved forms upon benches or beds along with let- 

 tuce and spinage. The seed is sown directly where the plants are 

 to stand. The plant grows quickly, and the early tender leaves 

 should be used before it runs to seed. 



FORCING EGG-PLANTS.* 



The possibility of forcing egg-plants successfully was suggested 

 by a crop which was grown under glass in one of the market gar- 

 dens near Boston in the spring of 1891. These plants were not 

 grown with the intention of forcing them ; but as the greenhouse 

 was vacant at the time the main crop of egg-plants was set out of 



*Bulletiu 26 contains au account of egg-plants in the field. 



