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use. Why should any man that has a garden 

 buy mustard? Why should he want the English 

 to send him out, in a bottle, and sell him for a 

 quarter of a dollar, less and worse mustard than 

 he can raise in his garden for a penny ? The 

 English mustard is, in general, a. thing Fabricated, 

 and is as false as the glazed and fiasted goods, 

 sent out by the fraudulent fabricators of Manches- 

 ter. It is a composition of baked bones reduced 

 to powder, some wheat flour, some colouring, 

 and a drug of some sort that gives the pungent 

 taste. Whoever uses that mustard freely will 

 find a burning in his inside long after he has swal- 

 lowed the mustard. Why should any man, who 

 has a garden, buy this poisonous stuff ? The mus- 

 tard-seed ground in a little mustard mill is what 

 he ought to use. He will have bran and all ; and 

 his mustard will not look yellow like the English 

 composition ; but we do not object to Rye-bread 

 on account of its colour .' Ten pounds of seed 

 will grow upon a perch of ground ; and ten pounds 

 of mustard is more than any man can want in a 

 year. The plants do not occupy the ground more 

 than fourteen weeks, and may be followed by ano- 

 ther crop of any plant, and even of mustard if 

 you like. This, therefore, is a very useful plant, 

 and ought to be cultivated by every farmer, and 

 every man who hus a garden. 



237. NASTURTIUM An annual plant, with 

 a half-red half-yellow flower, which has an offen- 

 sive smell ; but, it bears a seed enveloped in a 

 fleshy pod, and that pod, taken before the seed 

 becomes ripe, is used as a thing to jiickle. The 

 seeds should be sown in the fall, or very early in 

 the Spring. The plants should have pretty long 



