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spinach or orach, and rocket salad or roquette. It is the 

 stems and leaf-stalks of the plants in bed II which are 

 edible; here are asparagus, rhubarb, sea kale, kohlrabi, 

 cardoon, and celery. In bed 5 are cauliflower and broccoli, 

 the flowers being the edible portions. 



Many plants furnish food in the shape of fruits. A fruit 

 is developed from the flower, thus differing from a vegetable 

 which is the edible portion of some part of a plant other 

 than the fruit. Beds 6 to 8, 12 to 16, and 19 to 27 contain 

 plants which furnish edible fruits. These divide them- 

 selves generally into two kinds, those in which the fruit 

 is more or less fleshy, such as berries, pumpkins and beans, 

 and those in which the seeds only furnish the food value, 

 such as wheat, barley and other grains. In bed 6 are the 

 egg-plant and okra. In bed 8 will be found peas, beans, 

 and fennugreek; in bed 12 the various kinds of tomatoes; 

 in bed 13 the different sorts of peppers; in bed 14 straw- 

 berries; beds 19 to 26 contain each a single kind, as follows: 

 crookneck squash, pumpkin, musk melon, citron, water 

 melon, Hubbard squash, English marrow, and cucumber. 



In the group containing the grains are the four common 

 cereals, wheat, rye, oats and barley, all in bed 7. In bed 

 15 are the different kinds of sweet corn. In bed 16 are 

 the field corns, both flint and dent, and popcorn. In bed 

 27 are buckwheat, sorghum, and rape, among others. 



Beds 9 and 17 contain fodder plants. Bed 9 has fodder 

 plants other than grasses, such as alfalfa, red, white and 

 crimson clovers, winter vetch, summer vetch, yellow lupine, 

 blue lupine, and Florida beggarweed. In bed 17 are fodder 

 plants of the grass family, such as teosinte, Johnson grass, 

 field corn, timothy, Kentucky blue- grass, red-top, and pearl 

 millet. In bed 28 is the sugar-cane plant, from the juice of 

 which sugar, one of the most important articles of food, 

 is made. 



In the border of woody plants along the gravel walk are 

 such familiar fruits as the hazel-nut, black, red and white 

 currents, gooseberry, blackberry, black-cap, elderberry, 



