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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1895. 
WATERCRESS AND ITS 
CULTIVATION IN FRANCE. 
1 excellent new French monthly illus- 
magazine, Le Monde Moderne, 
ente il in its February number, an interesting 
artiole by Mons. Charles Grosdemange upon the 
cultivation of Watercress at Provins, a small 
town situated nearly sixty miles east of Paris, 
where this industry gives profitable employment 
to a num 
Provins, with i s picturesque ruins, dating 
back to the atiii: and thirteenth centuries, its 
beautifal rural penne and its mineral 
as the author of the article 
visitor—but, like him, we must limit ourselves 
to the horticultural point of view. In this re- 
spect, we are reminded at the commencement 
that Provins is the birthplace of the Rose which 
bears its name, though commonly written“ Pro- 
vence,” the true French Rose, Rosa gallica. Well 
watered by two winding yet swift-flowing rivers, 
the Voulzie and the Durtain, the district round 
, are 
special notice at a time when this simple plant is 
being made the object of attacks, on the score 
that it is possibly responsible for mysterious 
ailments, and even for outbreaks of typhoid fever. 
In the year 1888, M. Doublet, a Watercress 
grower, began to establish 
with the Voulzie and the Durtain. 
The Creee-beds consist of a series of shallow pits, 
about 75 yards long, and 20 inches in depth, with 
an average width of 8$ feet. They are separated 
from each other by a turf path a yard wide. The 
slope from the end of the beds where the water 
enters to that at which it leaves after having 
circulated through them is relatively small, being 
only 3 inches in a bed 75 yards long. 
From the oharge: pit, which receives the water, 
the latter passes into the beds through an 
earthenware pipe, 4 inches in diameter, placed 
under the path separating the charge-pit from 
the beds. When it has reached the end of the 
bed it passes out in a similar manner into the 
discharge-pit. These earthenware tubes, a kind 
of drain-pipe, are so a n the ground that 
y level of the water in the beds never exceeds 
4 inches, at which it is kept during the whole 
time that the Cress is under cultivation. — 
The Voulzie Cress-beds. 5 1 cover a surface 
of about 20 acres, present, a 
eight large divisions of twenty-five to thirty | beds 
each. As the water derived from its 
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