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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Mar. 



WINTER CRESS. 



The use and culture, the same as the American cress. 



WATER CRESS. 



This well-known and useful salad, is said to have been first 

 cultivated in 1808. If plantations be wanted of it, they may 

 now be made, or indeed in any spring or autumnal month. 

 For full directions, see Ma?/ and June. 



WORK TO BE DONE IN THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 



If the weather be now favorable, that is, dry and mild, the 

 various branches of cropping should be attended to with dili- 

 gence. No time should be lost in committing to the soil the 

 requisite seeds and roots of plants. 



In early light dry soils, it will be an advantage to sow and 

 plant early, whereby the crops will gain sufficient strength to 

 resist the droughts of summer ; but in such as are cold, wet, 

 and late, the state of the weather must determine the time of 

 sowing. It is always better to wait until the ground be in a fit 

 state to receive the seed, than to sow too early, when it is not 

 in such good order, as many of the less hardy seeds will not 

 vegetate freely, indeed scarcely at all, if sown at this early 

 period of the year, when the ground is wet. Let all coverings 

 be removed v/hich were used in protecting vegetables during the 

 winter, and rough dig all ground not immediately required. 



The gi'avel-walks should now be put in order for the season, 

 and all unpleasant objects removed from this time till the end o. 

 autumn ; for an equal degree of order and neatness is as neces- 

 sary in the culinary garden, as in that appropriated to flowers 

 alone. 



