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weekly all the year round on fine rich soil kept ^varm, moist, and shaded, 

 and cut in the seed-leaf, generally in about a week after they are sown. Of 

 the small salads which are allowed to advance beyond the seed-leaf before 

 they are cut, by far the best is the common cos lettuce. There are two kinds 

 of mustard which may be grown as small salading, Sinapis alba i., and 

 S. nigra L. ; but the former alone is grown as salading, the latter being the 

 kind grown in fields for its seeds to be ground into the flour-of-mustard of 

 the shops. It is, therefore, seldom seen in gardens. The rape, Brassica 

 Napus, var. oleifera Dec.^ is only grown in gardens as a small salad, and as 

 in the case of other small salads, when much in demand, one pound of seed 

 of each kind at least will be required. 



1531. Substitutes for mustard are to be found in the wild radish, Ra- 

 phanus Raphanistrum L. ; the sea -radish, R. maritimus iS'm.y in the wild 

 mustard, Sinapis arvensis L. ; the fine- leaved mustard, S. tenuifolia L.; in 

 all the species of Brassica, &c. ; and, in short, in all the annual and biennial 

 species of Cruciferas, not excepting the wall-flower and stock gillyflower, 

 though these and various others are not worth growing as salad-plants. 



SuBSECT. VII. — Substitutes for Acetariaceous Esculents. 

 1582. — Substitutes for acetariaceous esculents are found in the following 

 plants. — The Brooklime^ Veronica Beccabimga jL., a scrophularinous perennial 

 common in rivulets and wet ditches, and used like the water-cress. The Garden 

 Rocket, Eruca sativa Dec, a cruciferous annual, used like the common cress 

 and mustard. Scurvy Grass, Cochlearia officinalis i., a cruciferous bien- 

 nial found on our sea-shores, the leaves of which are used like the water 

 cress. Wood Sorrel, Oxalis Acetosella L., an oxalidaceous perennial, the 

 leaves of which form a very grateful addition to salading, and communicate 

 an agreeable relish to dishes of mashed greens : this may also be said of the 

 leaves of all the other species of Oxab's. To these may be added the young 

 leaves of all the cruciferous plants mentioned in p. 616; the leaves and 

 flowers of Tropaeolum majus L.; the flowers of Cercis siliquastrum i. y the 

 petals of the Dahlia ; the points of the shoots of CEnothera biennis L.j the 

 leaves of Sedum album L. ; of Crlthmum maritimum L. ; of Salicdrnia 

 herbacea L. ; of Hypochseris maculata L. ; of Picrldium vulgare L. ; of 

 Spilanthes oleracea L., and of S. fiisca Hort. Far. (see Bon Jard. 1842, 

 p. 317) ; of Balsamita vulgaris Desf the costmary, a leaf or two of which 

 is sometimes used to add to the flavour of mixed salads ; of Achillea Mil- 

 lefolium L. ; of Inula crithmifolia L. ; of Cochlearia Coronbpus L.; of 

 Plantago Coronbpus L., and various others. 



Sect. VIII. — Adornaceous Esculents. 

 1533. Adornaceous esculents, under which term we include chiefly the 

 plants used as garnishes, such as the parsley, chervil, fennel, horse-radish, &c , 

 include a great variety of plants belonging to different natural orders, and some 

 of which, such as the Indian cress, might even have been included under 

 acetariaceous esculents. The culture of all the plants of this section is 

 very simple, and with the exception of the horse-radish, a dry calcareous 

 soil, poor rather than rich, is to be preferred ; because such a soil is found 

 to be most favourable for the preseiwation of their aromatic properties, 

 With the exception of the horse-radish, they are generally grown in a com- 

 partment, commonly a border, in the outer garden or slip, by themselves. 



