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maker who has a running brook on the prem- 

 ises. Here water-cress may be grown. The 

 warm, pungent taste one finds in the leaves 

 makes them the favorite early spring salad 

 plant. Seeds of the water-cress may be had 

 from all seedsmen and the opportunity of 

 growing one's own cresses should not be neg- 

 lected. The seed may be planted from April 

 to June in the shallow sandy gravel bottoms of 

 swift-running streams. 



Mint: And now we come to a plant httle 

 used by Americans in salads, but thoroughly 

 worth attention in this, connection. The 

 mint's leaves, both green and dry, are valuable 

 accessories to lettuce-salads, and are especially 

 good in combination with Dandelion leaves. 

 Mint may be propagated from cuttings 

 of old stalks or by division of roots of old 

 plants in the springtime. All nursery seeds- 

 men can supply cuttings, though they do not 

 catalogue mint seeds. A mint-bed will con- 

 tinue to flourish five or six seasons. A very 

 few plants of it will suffice amply for the salad- 

 garden. 



Parsley: One cannot pass the subject of 

 the salad-garden without some mention of 



