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the division of the roots of the wild mint of the meadows. 
It grows in the soil of the forcing house without trouble. 
Mint retails at 10 cents a bunch in the early spring. It 
is used for flavoring meats, especially lamb. 
Potato. It is no new thing for English gardeners to 
force potatoes in beds and in pots. ‘They use a long, slender 
kidney potato, which comes to quick maturity. Our note 
books record a case where a Pennsylvania market gardener 
in 1896 succeeded in growing ordinary potatoes under glass 
in time to compete with the new potatoes from the South. 
He sold the under-glass potatoes at about the same price per 
half-peck as he afterward obtained per bushel for the out-of- 
doors product. 
Water cress, mint and parsley must be ranked among 
the profitable minor crops. 
