CRESS. 543 



1. Common Corn Salad. 2, Italian Corn Salad. 



Valerianella Olitoria. Valerianella Eriocarpa. 



Mache of the French. Mache cT Italic. 



The principal difference in appearance between the 

 Italian and the Common sort is in the colour of the leaves 

 of the former, and the greater length of the footstalks. 

 Besides its use in a crude state in salads, the Italian 

 species, when dressed in early spring as a spinach, is 

 very good, and has been in much request for that 

 purpose. 



The seeds of both sorts may be sown in August for 

 winter and spring use ; they may either be sown broad- 

 cast, or in narrow shallow drills ; and when the plants 

 are an inch high, they should be thinned out to the 

 distance of three or four inches from each other. 



25. CRESS. 



The sorts of Cress cultivated in England are the fol- 

 lowing : 



1. American Cress. 2. Common Cress. 



Barbarea Prcecox. 3. Curled Cress. 



Belleisle Cress. 4. Golden Cress. 

 Winter Cress. Cresson Doreofthe French. 



The American, or Belleisle Cress, is a perennial 

 plant, a native of England, and used in salads during 

 the autumn and winter. It is best sown broad-cast, 

 under the protection of a north wall, in April or May, 

 and when the plants are two or three inches high thinned 

 out to six inches apart : it transplants readily, and 

 therefore some of the young plants may be pricked 

 out three or four inches apart, so as to be covered with 

 a hand-glass in severe frost and snow, which will thus 

 keep it perfectly sweet and tender : it is, nevertheless, 

 a very hardy plant, and will stand through our most 

 severe winters. 



