84 Southern Gardener^ s Practical Manual, 



CORN SALAD 



Corn salad, known also as "lamb's lettuce," is a native 

 of Europe, Africa and parts of North America. It is 

 more hardy than lettuce, for which it is used as a substi- 

 tute. Sow in earl.y fall for winter salad or in earlj^ spring. 

 It is ready for use in sixty days. It is sown in drills 

 eighteen inches apart and thinned to four to six inches 

 in the drill. It is commonly used as a cold salad and 

 sometimes mixed with cress, mustard or other pungent 

 salad plants. It is sometimes boiled and used as a 

 substitute for spinach, which see. 



cow -PEAS 



Cow-peas, also known as field peas or corn-field peas. 

 While custom has given this the name of pea, it is 

 botanically a bean, and while it is mainly cultivated as a 

 field crop, some of its varieties deserve a place in the 

 garden. Apart from its value as a catch -crop, to be 

 grown for the improvement of the soil between the 

 spring and fall plantings of the usual garden vegetables, 

 it being a legume or nitrogen-collector and supplier of 

 humus, it contributes a very palatable variety to the 

 table supply. It may be grown in drills, broadcasted 

 alone or in the corn. There are several varieties which 

 are as much relished by many southern families as is the 

 Boston bean in the North. Gathered when the beans or 

 peas are fully grown, — the pods change color prepara- 

 tory to ripening, — they make a boiled dish worthy of a 

 place upon the gentleman's table, as well as upon that of 



