Cress 
Mustard 
Cress and Mustard Tests grown in 
Carters Laboratory 
CRESS 
Carters “Parsley Curled.” — This selection of Curled Garden Cress is comparable with nothing less 
than a finely Curled Parsley — hence its’ name; a distinct advance on the Triple Curled . . . 
Plain or Common. — For early salads 
Curled or Pepper Grass. — Ordinary stock 
American or Upland Cress. — A perennial sort with a taste similar to watercress 
Watercress 
MUSTARD 
Carters Finest White. — Very popular for salads .... 
Brown. — Very pungent; the seed largely used for grinding 
Chinese. — Black-seeded; fine pungent flavour 
Per pkt. 
Per oz. 
Per X lb. 
.10 
.16 
.40 
.10 
.16 
.40 
.10 
.16 
.40 
.10 
.20 
.76 
.10 
.60 
1.60 
Per oz. 
Per X lb. 
Per lb. 
.10 
.20 
.76 
.10 
.20 
.76 
.10 
.20 
.76 
Cultivation of Cress and Mustard. — Two of the most popular salad plants in cultivation. Easily grown during the 
winter on the greenhouse bench, in frames, pots, or boxes. Sow the seed very thickly in rows 3 to 6 inches apart, under 
glass for summer use; the rows should be 1 foot apart in the open ground. Make successive sowings. Watercress will succeed 
only in very damp soils on the borders of ponds or streams, or where the roots are partially submerged; seed should be planted 
a quarter of an inch deep and kept well weeded until the plants make a strong growth. These plants propagate rapidly by 
root extension and self breeding. One ounce of cress will sow 100 feet of drill, one ounce of mustard 40 feet of drill. 
CHICORY 
Chicory is a leading 
ingredient in French 
salads, and the plant is 
so easily cultivated that 
it should be more popu- 
lar here. The seed is 
sown in late spring, in a 
sheltered position on a 
nice soil, very similar 
to carrots. Thin out 
to about 8 inches apart, 
and grow on until the 
late autumn, when the 
growth will die down, 
leaving a root somewhat 
like a parsnip. These 
should be taken into a 
shed or cellar and kept 
in a heap of soil away 
from frost and light, 
to be later transferred 
to a hothouse or forcing 
pit, when needed to 
produce their blanched 
heads during winter. 
Large Rooted. 
Price, .lOperpkt.; 
.25peroz.; .80 per ^ lb. 
Witloof. — The finest 
winter salad sort. 
Price, .10 per pkt. ; 
.25 per oz. ; .80 per ^4 lb. 
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