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so well known here as in Europe. The third 
variety, known as the upland or upright cress, 
is perfectly hardy and common to all parts of 
the United States. In cultivation it is usually 
treated as an annual or as a winter perennial. 
Seeds may be sown late in the season, when the 
young plants will be ready for use early in the 
spring; or, they may be sown in the earliest 
spring and will be ready for use about fifty-two 
days after sowing. If grown through the sum- 
mer they are apt to be bitter and tough, unless 
grown in a shady place. The upland cress 
resembles water-cress in flavor. 
CORN SALAD. 
Corn salad is not so well known here as in 
Europe, where it is highly prized as a fall and 
winter salad and as a pot-herb. It is a cool- 
season crop, grown as lettuce is. It is hardy 
and may be sown as early in spring as the soil 
can be worked. It comes to maturity in six 
or eight weeks, producing a bunch of leaves 
something like spinach. It may also be sown 
in the fall and protected in winter the same as 
spinach, so as to have very early plants in the 
spring, or, if sown late in the summer, it will 
give edible leaves in the fall, and in a mild, 
open season, will flourish all through the winter. 
