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Kernel, *Gourt of Wick, *Red Margaret, Early Nonpareil, *lioss 
Nonpareil, Irish Peach, Ba.ctor's Pearmain, Breedon Pippin, *Ecldiii- 
ville, Feands Pippin, Greenup's Pippin, Primate, *I)evojishire Quar- 
renden. Golden Reinette. Kitchen : * Cockpit,* Carlisle Codlin, Nelson 
Codlin, French Crab, Hartford Sweet, Hunthouse, * Warner's Kimj, 
Leadington Grey, *Lord 8 afield, Neige, * Galloway Pippin, Reinette 
dll Canada, Stirling Castle. 
THE CULTURE OF THE WATER-CRESS WITHOUT 
WATER. 
BY JI. MAYER BE JOUHE. 
NTRARY to the prevailing belief, water-creases do not 
live exclusively in water, which is their natural element; 
they may be grown under otljer dissimilar conditions, 
and this peculiarity may be turned to useful account at 
seasons when it is very diificult to procure this useful 
and valuable esculent in any other way. 
Briefly, then, it should be Imowu that water-cress will do very 
well in a garden-frame, sown in heat, in autumn or winter. Thinly 
sown and very lightly covered over, th? seeds will germinate very 
rapidly, and if due care be taken to maintain a moderate degree of 
humidity, as in the case of other early produce, and a gentle and 
continuous heat, which can easily be effected by judicious ventilation 
and the frequent renewal of the dung, we may pick e.xtremely tender, 
well-flavoured cress all through the winter, in gardens where there 
is no spring, or stream, or water-cress bed of any description, and 
at a season when, in the absence of special culture, the ordinary 
growth of the plant is nothing or next to nothing at all. 
Adding a little fresh mould from time to time, and after each 
cutting, watering and giving rather less air than usual for a few days, 
we speedily get a new and valuable growth. If the seed comes up 
too thick we may thin and prick out the ])Iants in boxes or shallow 
pans, keeping the glass down prett}’ close on the plants, as in the 
winter-culture of vegetables generally. Seedling plants thus treated, 
as a rule, give better results than plants or slips taken out of water. 
I have not tried this plan in summer-time, but propose to do so 
in the course of the present year, as I have no other means of pro- 
curing water-cress at that season. I am disposed to think that by 
growing them in soil kept well wetted in garden-frames, with a 
northerly aspect, and with a sufficiency of ventilation, I shall get 
satisfactory results. Time will prove. Should success crown my 
efforts, I shall obtain cresses unattended by those disagreeable con- 
sequences, which are not uncommon with cress grown in water, and 
appears to be occasioned by the eggs of certain species of aquatic 
insects deposited on the under surfaces of the leaves and the stems 
of the plants. — Reviie Sort. 
July. 
