242 HOME AND GARDEN 



tremely scarce, and as the bud-mass looked tender 

 and much like a purple Broccoli, I had it cooked. ^ It 

 proved so good that even when other things are in 

 plenty I shall not fail to use it again. 



The products of the large Pea and Bean tribe are 

 probably of still more ancient use as human food than 

 even the members of the Cabbage family. Botanically 

 they are called Leguminosce. In the flower garden 

 they are represented by Sweet Peas and by several of 

 the deep-rooted perennial Peas ; by Lathyrus sativus of 

 loveliest green-blue bloom ; by the Spring Bitter-Vetch 

 and the great Orange Vetch, handsome kinds that we 

 used to know as Orobus, but that botanists now class 

 all together as Lathyrus ; also by many pretty Alpine 

 plants under the family names of Anthyllis, Onoh-ychis, 

 and their allies ; and all our garden Lupins, annual 

 and perennial. 



The same family includes the farmer's Clovers, 

 Tares, and Vetches, Lucerne, Saintfoin, and Trifolium, 

 the Broom and Gorse of our waste lands, the pretty 

 rosy Rest-Harrow of the roadsides, and the Dyer's 

 Green-weed, the true Planta Genista of the Plan- 

 tagenets. 



If I had a wide upland meadow and wished to 

 produce honey on a large scale, I should grow a 

 quantity of the Melilotus, which I believe to be the 

 finest of all bee-plants ; a trefoil of rather tall, 

 branching habit. 



I wish all growing things were as clearly and 



