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CrtESS. 
Cress and Mustard Tests grown in 
Carters Laboratory. 
Mustard. 
Per quart. 
s. d. 
ci pint, 
r. d. 
Per o/. 
s. d. 
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 — 2 
Triple Curled. -Extra quick growth 26 1 
Plain or Common.— For early salads 20 1 
Curled. — Ordinary stock 20 1 
Australian Garden 
American, or Land Cress [see also page 106) 
Watercress [see also page 106) per packet, 6d. and is, 
MUSTARD. 
Carters Finest White.— Very popular for salads 20 13 03 
Brown.— Very pungent ; the seed largely used for grinding 20 13 03 
Chinese.— Black-seeded ; fine pungent flavour — 20 04 
For other Salad Plants , see. page 1 06 For Herbs, see page 5 1 . 
Cultural Directions.— Mustard and Cress. — Twe of the most popular salad plants in cultivation, being in season all 
the year round. They are both cultivated in the same manner. 
Cultivation. Use boxes of good fine soil, make the surface flat, and sow the seed rather thickly over the top, just pressing it into 
the surface but without using any covering material. After sowing, water it well. Place the box in moist heat, and cover with hoatds 
or thick paper until the seed germinates. Use shallow boxes half filled with soil. Frequent successional sowings should be made all 
the year round. Good results may be obtained out of doors in the summer by preparing beds of fine soil in the same way as recom- 
mended for boxes, and covering the seed when sown with boards or mats until it germinates. 
Use.— Cut as soon as ready with a sharp knife. 
Watercress may be successfully grown if sown in rows in a shady border and well watered. See , age 106. 
FORCED HEADS OF CHICORY. 
It is only on the Con- 
tinent one can appreciate 
the delicate piquancy 
attached to salads, as they 
seem to understand them 
better than we do here. 
Chicory is a leading ingre- 
dient in French salads, and 
the plant is so easily culti- 
vated that it should be more 
popular here. The seed is 
sown in late spring, in a 
sheltered position on a nice 
soil, very similar to Carrots, 
the plants thinned out to 
about 9 inches apart, and 
left to grow on until the 
end of the summer, when 
the growth will die down, 
leaving a root somewhat 
Chicory. 
like a Parsnip. These are 
taken into a shed and kept 
in a heap of soil away from 
frost, and transferred to a 
hothouse when needed to 
produce their blanched 
heads during winter. They 
may also be grown in 
boxes. 
For Hints on Cultivation, 
see page 106. 
Price of seed, 6 d. and 
is. per packet. 
Price of roots for forcing, 
5s. per dozen (only avail- 
able in winter). 
c£«%,&e£“ A' A WES PARK, LONDON, S.W.-i 9 i 3 . 
