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Eruca sativa, Linn.; " Brassica Substitute,'' Eocket, Jamba 

 (India). 



Annual, (J in. to \\ ft., S. Europe, N, Africa, iladraniaut 

 (Arabia), India (see imports under " European Rape ' : 

 ported from Karachi under the name of " Jamba," commonly 

 grown with barley, gram, peas or cotton as a substitute for 



Sarson " or "Rape*'; oil from the seed used for food, but 

 mainly as an illuniinant, cake for feeding cattle and green plant 

 for fodder (Watt). Young leavi> eaten as salad in France (Vil- 

 morin); cultivated at Kaftan, Hadi.maut, where the roots are 

 used as salad (Kew Bull. 1894, p. 328), 



Camelina sativa, Crantz.; Yellow Dodder, False Flax, Gold 



(vt Pleasure. 



Annua], 2 to 3 it. high. A common weed in this country, the 

 Lnited States, Canada, &c. ; cultivated to a limited extent in 

 Southern Kussia. Oil from the seed used in Central Europe fur a 

 variety of domestic purposes. Cake as a feeding stuff for cattle 

 uncertain; plant sometimes giown as green fodder for sheep; 

 seeds liked by birds, especially finch and bunting; poultry and 

 geese particularly are very fond of the seeds and fatten quickly 

 upon them (Johnson & SowerbyJ. An analysis of "Gold of 

 Pleasure Cake (Camelina) " shows water 10-25, oil 11"2, albu- 

 minoids 3537, digestible carbohydrates 25*64, woody fibre 11*53 

 mineral matters 6*01, sand and silica 0*8 (Smetham). 



Cochlearia Armoracia, Linn. ; Horse Radish. 



Perennial. Belgium, Holland, Germany, Great Britain — a 

 garden crop, the trade relying on supplies from the afore- 

 mentioned countries. Nearly half a century ago it was recorded 

 ("The Garden, 5 ' Dec. 16, 18T6, p. 576) that "It is somewhat 

 remarkable that a crop so easily grown as Horse Radish should 

 be sufficiently remunerative to pay for importation whilst in 

 the London market-gardens comparatively little of it is grown," 

 and enquiries made by Kew at Covent Garden recently show that 

 similar conditions prevail in this country to-day, when the culti- 

 vation might still more be worthy of some extension. 



2. March, 1890, " Cultivation of Horse Radish in Bohemia, 



pp. 493-494. 



Other plants in Cruciferae that may be noted are the well- 

 known "Cabbage" (Bras sic a oleracea, Linn. var. capitata), 



"Kale " or "Borecole" (B. 0. var. acephala), "Savoy" and 

 ''Brussels Sprout" (B. o. var. bullata), "Cauliflower" and 

 "Broccoli" (B. o. var. Botrytis), "Kohl-rabi," " Siam Cab- 

 bage" or "Hungarian Turnip" (B. o. var. caulo-rapa), "Tur- 

 nip" (B. campestris, Linn. var. esculenta), "Swede Turnip" 

 (B. c. var. napo-brassicata), "Cress" (Lepidium sativum. 

 Linn.), "Water Cress" (Nasturtium officinale, R. Br.), "Sea 

 Kale," (Crambe maritima, Linn.), all grown on a field or market- 

 garden scale. 



Journal of the Board of Agriculture: — "Storing Turnips 

 Oct. 1904, pp. 398-401; "The Value of the Turnip as a Vege- 

 table and Stock Food," April, 1916, pp. 66-67. "The Culti- 

 vation of Water Cress," Feb. 1909. V ^- 826-834; March, 1915, 



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