54 CRESS, AND WATER CRESS. 



The seed ofFetticus is small and light, but it will admit 

 of being sown thick, say at the rate of from four to six 

 pounds to the acre of land. 



CRESS. 



CRESSON. Lapidium sativum. 



VARIETIES. 



Curled, or Peppergrass. | Broad-leaved Garden. 



, CRESS is a small salad herb, and is generally used with 

 Lettuce, White Mustard, Rape, Chervil, &c. It may be sown 

 in little drills very thick, as should Salad seeds in general, 

 and cut before it comes into rough leaf. A small quantity 

 in the salad season, which is Spring and Autumn, may be 

 sown every week in- rich ground free from weeds. 



CRESS-WATER. 



CRESSON DE FONTAINE. Sisymbrium nasturtium. 



THE Water Cress is a creeping amphibious perennial, and 

 is grown very extensively for the London markets. Loudon 

 says, in his Encyclopedia of Gardening, that "The most 

 suitable description of water is a clear stream, not more 

 than an inch and a half deep, running over sand or gravel; 

 the least favourable, deep still water, oramuddy bottom. It 

 is highly advantageous to make the plantations in newly 

 risen spring water, as the plants do not only thrive better in 

 it, but in consequence of its being rarely frozen, they gene- 

 rally continue in vegetation, and in a good state for gather- 

 ing, through the whole winter season. The plants are 

 disposed in rows parallel with the course of the stream, 

 about eighteen inches apart. When these plants begin to 

 grow in water one inch and a half deep, they soon check the 

 current so as to raise the water to the height of three inches 

 above the plants, which is considered the most favourable 



