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in spring. The seed is also used as a medicine. 

 A small patch, probably two square yards, will 

 be enough. 



214. CORN (Indian). To have some early, the 

 early sorts must be got. A dozen or two of plants 

 may be easily raised in pots, as directed for Cu- 

 cumbers. See Cucumbers. 



215. CORN-SALAD. This is a little insig- 

 nificant annual plant that some persons use in 

 salads, though it can hardly be of any real use, 

 where lettuce seed is to be had. It is a mere 

 weed. 



216. CRESS (or Pepper-Grass) is very good 

 in salads along with lettuces, white mustard, or 

 rape. It should be sown in little drills, -very thick 

 (as should the white mustard and the rape) and 

 cut before it comes into rough leaf. A small quan- 

 tity, in the salad-season, should be sown every six 

 days. This salad, as well as the mustard and the 

 rape, may be very conveniently raised in a cor- 

 ner of a hot-bed, made for radishes or cabbage- 

 plants. 



217. CUCUMBER. To give minute rule 

 for the propagation and cultivation of this plant, 

 in a country like this, would be waste of time. 

 However, if you wish to have them a month , -ar- 

 lier than the natural ground will br ng them, do 

 this. Make a hole and put into it a little hot 

 dung ; let the hole be under a warm fence. Put 

 6 inches deep of fine rich earth on the dung. 

 Sow a parcel of seeds in this earth ; and cover at 

 night with a bit of carpet, or sail cloth, having 

 first fixed some hoops over this little bed. Be- 

 fore the plants show the rough leaf, plant two 

 i'nto a little flower pot, and fill as many pot^ 



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