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spinach or orach, and rocket salad or roquette. It is the 
stems and leaf-stalks of the plants in bed 11 which are 
edible; here are asparagus, rhubarb, sea kale, kohlrabi, 
cardoon, and celery. In bed 5 are cauliflower and broccoli, 
the flowers being the edible portions. 
Many plants furnish food in the shape of fruits. A fruit 
is developed from the flower, thus differing from a vegetable 
which is the edible portion of some part of a plant other 
than the fruit. Beds 6 to 8, 12 to 16, and 19 to 27 contain 
plants which furnish edible fruits. These divide them- 
selves generally into two kinds, those in which the fruit 
is more or less fleshy, such as berries, pumpkins and beans, 
and those in which the seeds only furnish the food value, 
such as wheat, barley and other grains. In bed 6 are the 
egg-plant and okra. In bed 8 will be found peas, beans, 
and fennugreek; in bed 12 the various kinds of tomatoes; 
in bed 13 the different sorts of peppers; in bed 14 straw- 
berries; beds 19 to 26 contain each a single kind, as follows: 
crookneck squash, pumpkin, musk melon, citron, water 
melon, Hubbard squash, English marrow, and cucumber. 
In the group containing the grains are the four common 
cereals, wheat, rye, oats and barley, all in bed 7. In bed 
15 are the different kinds of sweet corn. In bed 16 are 
the field corns, both flint and dent, and popcorn. In bed 
27 are buckwheat, sorghum, and rape, among others. 
Beds 9 and 17 contain fodder plants. Bed 9g has fodder 
plants other than grasses, such as alfalfa, red, white and 
crimson clovers, winter vetch, summer vetch, yellow lupine, 
blue lupine, and Florida beggarweed. In bed 17 are fodder 
plants of the grass family, such as teosinte, Johnson grass, 
field corn, timothy, Kentucky blue- grass, red-top, and pearl 
millet. In bed 28 is the sugar-cane plant, from the juice of 
which sugar, one of the most important articles of food, 
is made. 
In the border of woody plants along the gravel walk are 
such familiar fruits as the hazel-nut, black, red and white 
currents, gooseberry, blackberry, black-cap, elderberry, 
