G BEYER’S SEED CATALOGUE. 
is the first to make its appearance, grows with surprising ancl unequaled rapidity 
so that in a few days it is ready to use. It is weeks ahead of any other plant. 
The young and tender leaves can be eaten raw, or us salad. It is excellent prepar- 
ed same as lettuce, or when the leaves become large and plentiful, boiled asgreens. 
In taste it is very pleasant, having the identical flavor of the Water Cress, so high- 
ly prized, and is agreeable to all It is of easy culture, when once established re- 
quires no after care and proves like a good friend, remaining It is of robust na- 
ture and unparalleled hardiness. Fifteen degrees below frost will not change the 
color of its leaves nor damage it, and therefore the foliage of the summer growth 
can be used in winter, same as Kale. 
For using it cooked in the winter or spring, boil the leaves till tender, then take 
them out, let the water drain off, after this cut the leaves tolerably fine and finish 
by stewing with butter,— Lard will do as well— and season with pepper and salt. 
The Upland Cress, besides its varied uses as a vegetable, may at the same time 
prove of much benefit otherwise; resembling as it does the Water Cress in taste, 
which is used not only for its pleasant flavor, but successfully as a blood purifier 
and health restorer and also a curative in disorders of the liver and kidneys, 
scrofula and even bronchitis. This fact is well known in medical circles and men 
tioned in medical works. Knowing this, I made inquiry of a prominent medical 
authority, Messrs. Fredrick Stearns & Co.. Manufacturing Pharmacists, of Detroit, 
and sent them some of the foliage of 
the Upland Cress for examination, 
and received the following reply: 
“ The sample of Upland Cress which 
you have sent us, agrees remarkably 
in taste, odor and other physical prop- 
erties, with Water Cress, and might 
supplant it as you think." 
This substantiates my opinion 
Besides this, I have noticed also that 
chickens are quite fond of it. and it 
is remarkably effective for increasing 
the production of eggs during the 
winter. In this respect it will be 
more desirable, more convenient and 
cheaper than the so-called com- 
pounds to make hens lay. Tried us 
food for cattle, they seem to relish it 
also, as it was eaten as greedily as New Upland Cress 
c over m the summer. Now as this plant keeps in green condition, from ten to 
eleven months out of the twelve, it may prove of immense value as a winter for- 
age plant for cattle . For growing the plants, give the same treatment as is done 
with C elery, and when plants are, of suitable size transplant, 12 by 15 inches 
I offer this plant with great confidence, and in order to bo within reach of all at 
the low price of 10c per packet. 
Vegetable Orange or Mango Melon. 
— This is considered by the introducer, 
the most valuable and unequivocally the 
>est ever offered to the public in many 
years. I have not grown them, but have 
the authority of reliable persons who 
have tried them and found they are veg- 
etables of great value. They grow on 
vines same as melons; the fruits are ex- 
act in size, color and shape, of an orange 
color only the skin is smoother, being as 
smooth as glass. The flesh inside is pure 
white and is valuable for many pur- 
poses. Pared and sliced and fried in 
butter they are delicious, being equal, if 
not superior to parsnips. For preserves 
they are splendid and for mangoes are 
considered superior to peppera;are ox- 
