V. CORIANDER, INDIAN CORN. 



of this plant are used ; and a very small patch is suf- 

 ficient for any garden. Five or six clumps in the herb- 

 bed would be sufficient. 



141. CORIANDER is an annual plant that some per- 

 sons use in soups and salads. It is sowed early in April. 

 The seed is also used as a medicine, A yard or two 

 square of it will be sufficient. 



142. CORN (Indian). Infinite is the variety of the 

 sorts of Indian corn, and great is the difference in the 

 degrees of heat sufficient to bring the different sorts to 

 perfection. Several of the sorts will seldom ripen well 

 with the heat which they get in the state of New York, 

 requiring that of Carolina or Virginia, at least. Other 

 sorts will ripen perfectly well as far north as Boston ; 

 and there is a dwarf sort which will ripen equally well 

 on land 500 miles to the north of the last-mentioned 

 place. Whether this be the same sort as that which I 

 cultivate, I do not exactly know j but mine never fails to 

 come to perfection in England,' be the summer what it 

 may. This is a very fine garden vegetable. The ear is 

 stripped off the stalk just at the time when the grains 

 are full of milk. The ears are then boiled for about 

 twenty minutes : they are brought to table whole ; each 

 person takes an ear, rubs over it a little butter, and 

 sprinkles it with a little salt, and bites the grains from 

 the stalk to which they are attached, and which, in 

 America, is called the cob. In the Indian corn countries, 

 every creature likes Indian corn better than any other 

 vegetable, not excepting even the fine fruits of those 

 countries. When dead ripe, the grains are hard as 



