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White Mustard, Rape, Chervil, etc. It may be sown very 

 thick in little drills, like salad-seed, 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 Encyclopaedia of Gardening, that " The most suit- 

 able description of water is a clear stream, not more than an 

 inch and a half deep, running over sand or gravel ; the least 

 favorable, deep, still water, or a muddy 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 generally continue 

 in vegetation, and in a good state of gathering, 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 consi- 

 dered the most favorable circumstance in which they can be 

 placed. It is absolutely necessary to have a constant current; 

 as where there is any obstruction to the stream, the plants 

 cease to thrive. After they have been cut about three times 

 they begin to stock ; and then the oftener they are cut the 

 better." 



CUCUMBER. 



CONCOMBRE. Cucumis sativus, etc. 

 The Cucumis sativus, or common Cucumber, is a native of 



