118 THE AMATEURS’ GUIDE 
CRESS. 
Curled, or Pepper-grass. Broad-leaved Garden. 
Used ag a small salad. Sow very thickly in shallow drills on a 
smooth surface, at short intervals throughout the season, and cut 
before it comes into rough leaf. 
CRESS, WATER. 
A running stream of clear water is essential to the cultivation 
of this popular salad. The plants should be inserted in rows, in 
the bed of a stream, and in the direction of the current. The bed 
should be taken up and replanted occasionally, and the plants kept 
free from mud and other extraneous matters. When the plants 
begin to grow in water one inch and a half deep, they soon check 
the current so as to raise the water to the height of three inches 
above the plants, which is considered the most favorable circum- 
stance in which they can be placed. After they have been cut 
about three times, they begin to stock, and then the oftener they 
are cut the better. No other plants, and especially the Srum 
NODIFLORUM, a poisonous plant resembling the Water Cress, should 
be permitted to find their way into the bed. The beds should be 
laid dry two or three times a year, to permit weeds and decayed 
parts to be removed, and vacancies to be filled. 
CUCUMBER. 
1. Early Frame, or Table, 2. Long Green, or Turkey. 
Short Prickly. 3. Gherkin, (for pickling.) 
For early use, plant in hills, on a warm border, the latter end 
of spring, and for a succession crop, on an open compartment. 
For pickles, plant middle of summer, and manage as usual with 
the early kind. No. 1 is a short prickly variety, quite early, and 
productive. No. 2 is the best of the long varieties, principally 
