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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Borage (g natural size;. 



curved, streaked, and marked with a projecting midrib or ridge. 

 Their germinating power continues for eight years. 



Culture and Use — 

 This plant can be grown 

 without trouble, by sowing 

 the seed in any corner of 

 the garden at any time 

 from spring to the end of 

 autumn. It will come into 

 flower in a few months. In 

 the London market-gardens 

 it is grown in temporary 

 frames out of doors for 

 supply during late autumn 

 and winter ; for spring use,, 

 seedlings are raised in heat 

 and transplanted into glass- 

 covered frames, which can 

 be easily removed when the 

 weather is sufficiently mild 

 to admit of the plants being 

 exposed without injury. Throughout the summer and autumn it is 

 as easily grown out of doors as any common annual or weed, yet in 

 remote country districts we have seen people much puzzled to find 

 a sample when they required it ! It is so vigorous and hardy that 

 there need be no difficulty in country places in naturalising it on. 

 any half-waste place, chalk bank, steep slope, or copse ; a handful 

 might be found in such a place in case its culture had been forgotten 

 in the garden. It is one of the pretty true blue flowers, and almost 

 worth growing in certain places for its beauty. It is naturalised in, 

 various counties in England, but is not a true native plant, belong- 

 ing naturally to the shores of the Mediterranean, where so many 

 of our old garden plants are native. It is sold chiefly to hotel- 

 keepers for making claret-cup. The flowers are used for garnishing: 

 salads, but the plant is grown for the manufacture of cordials. 



BROCCOLL— See after Cauliflower 

 BRUSSELS SPROUTS.— See after Cabbage 



BUCK'S-HORN or HARTS-HORN PLANTAIN, or STAR 

 OF THE EARTH 



Plant ago Coronopus, L. Plantaginece. 



French, Corne-de-cerf, Pied-de-corbeau. German, Hirschhorn-Salat. Fkinish,^ 

 Veversblad, Hertshoorn. Italian, Corno di cervo, Coronopo, Erba Stella. Spanish, 

 Estrellamar, Cuerno de ciervo. 



Native of Europe. — Annual. — Leaves numerous, long, narrow^ 

 deeply lob^d, bearing a few long hairs and forming a very regular 



