June, 1911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS XV 
fitted over the top of the pot kept the 
soil moist. When the plants were large 
enough, they were transplanted to tubs 
and old barrels, filled also with soil, sand 
and gravel, no fertilizer being required. 
Kept constantly moist, the cress was 
ready to be picked in three weeks, and 
weekly thereafter. 
Where there is no opportunity for 
growing the watercress, the upland cress, 
or the garden cress may be grown in any 
garden, and afford a fair substitute, as 
they resemble the watercress in form 
and flavor. Also in winter, when the 
watercress is not in season in the north, 
the other cresses may be grown in pots 
or boxes in window or greenhouse. 
The seeds should be sown in small 
quantities and often, to assure a constant 
supply for daily use. The cresses, it is 
claimed, contain very valuable medicinal 
qualities; they are a very wholesome ad- 
dition to the menu, and should be used 
freely by all. They are usually employed 
only in salads, but may be used in other 
ways. Cress vinegar, for flavoring salads, 
sauces, etc., is made by bruising in a mor- 
tar one-half ounce of garden cress seed, 
and letting it stand for two weeks in a 
quart of cold, boiled vinegar; then strain 
and bottle for use. 
The watercress makes one of the most 
wholesome of salads, and may be used 
alone or mixed with cucumbers, tomatoes 
or cther vegetables. Cold boiled beets, 
cut in dice and mixed with the cress and 
served with French dressing, makes a nice 
salad. 
Watercress chopped makes a delicious 
flavor for sandwiches, either alone or 
mixed with other filling for flavoring. 
The cress is sometimes cooked and 
served like spinach, and is also stewed 
and seasoned with salt, pepper and but- 
ter, with a trifle of flour added for the 
thickening. 
A tasty dish is rice and cress. Boil 
until tender one cupful of rice in salted 
water; drain, and let steam for five min- 
utes. Meantime wash, dry and break two 
bunches of watercress; fry it until crisp 
in a tablespoonful of butter. Then ar- 
range the rice in a deep dish in alternate 
layers with the cress, having rice at top 
and bottom. Scatter grated cheese over 
the top. 
PLANTS THAT LIKE COLD 
‘es affects the inhabitants of 
the sea just as it does those of the 
land. As Arctic land-plants can- 
not flourish at the equator, so in the Arc- 
tic and Antarctic oceans marine plants are 
found that are unable to survive in warm 
water. 
Among the most remarkable of these 
cold-water plants are the laminariacee, a 
kind of sea-weed, which sometimes at- 
tains a gigantic size, exceeding in length 
the longest climbing-plants of the trop- 
ical forests, and developing huge stems 
like the trunks of trees. 
Investigation has shown that these 
plants flourish in the coldest waters of 
the polar seas, and that they never ad- 
vance farther from their frigid homes 
than to the limits of “summer tempera- 
ture” in the ocean. The genial warmth 
destroys them, just as a polar blast 
shrivels the flowers of a tropical garden. 
Evergreens for Screens— 
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Ones or Send ThemFrom 
His Nursery. 
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trees and look at our Rhododendrons. They are in bloom now. No finer varieties and specimens to be found anywhere. 
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