220 CRESS OR PEPPER GRASS, 



other good varieties, some of theni liaving red tinted stalks, but 

 this is the best, and no one who has once grown it will ever 

 want any other for his own table. 



CEESS OE PEPPEE GEASS. 



This is an early spring salad, used either by itself or mixed 

 with Lettuce. It has a warm, pungent taste, hence its name of 

 Pepper Grass. It grows readily in any garden soil, and may be 

 sown just as soon as the garden can be worked. The young 

 leaves are always the best, which should be cut before it begins 

 to run to seed, and as it grows rapidly, if it is desirable to have 

 it long in use, seed should be sown two or three times, with an 

 interval of ten days or a fortnight between the sowings. The 

 surface of the bed should be raked smooth and fine, and the seed 

 sown thickly in shallow drills and slightly covered. The seed 

 will grow when five years old. 



Curled Cress is the variety most generally grown, on account 

 of its handsome appearance, which makes it very suitable for 

 garnishing dishes, as well as for use as a salad. 



Water Cress differs materially from the Cress or Pepper 

 Grass of our gardens, being a hardy perennial plant, growing 

 along the margins of streams and ponds, but is much like it in, 

 the peculiar pungent taste of the leaves, and is used, particularly 

 in the spring of the year, as a very agreeable salad. When once 

 sown along a running stream or pond, it will rapidly increase and 

 spread, and those who have such a place on their farms, can 

 easily supply themselves with this very agreeable and healthful 

 spring salad, at the mere cost of gathering it when wanted. And 

 if residing near a market, especially that of a large city, they "s/iU. 

 find it a very profitable crop to raise. A basketful wiU sell for 

 fifty cents, and as an ordinary waggon will carry some two himdred 

 such baskets, in a city where there is a sale for such a quantity, 

 a hundred dollars can be taken for a single load. 



Gentlemen who are desirous of growing Water Cress for their 



