76 
NASTURTIUM, OR STURTION. 
MUSTARD. 
Moutarde. Sinapis. 
VARIETIES. 
White. I Black. 
The Alba , or White Mustard, grows spontaneously in the 
fields of England; it is also cultivated as a small salad, as well 
as for seed. The seed yields from every hundred pounds, 
from thirty-three to thirty-six pounds of sweet mild oil. 
White Mustard Seed is much used as a medicine, and per- 
sons subject to disordered stomachs often derive great benefit 
by taking a spoonful of the dry seed, two or three times a day 
Some use it in pickles, to which it imparts an agreeable fla- 
vour, and renders Cucumbers in particular more salutary. 
The Nigra or Common Mustard, is also a native of England. 
The condiment called Mustard, and in daily use at our table 
is prepared from the seed of this species. 
The seed, of each variety, may be sown in clean rich 
ground in April and May ; and for a fall salad in September 
in shallow drills. 
NASTURTIUM, OR STURTION. 
Capticine. Tropceolam. 
This is an annual plant, a native of Peru, and is highly 
Reserving of cultivation for the sake of its brilliant orange 
and crimson coloured flower, as. well as for the berries, 
which, if gathered while green and pickled in vinegar, make 
a good substiute for capers, and are used in melted butter, 
with boiled mutton, &c. 
The seed should be sown in April, or early in May, in 
drills about an inch deep, near fences or pales ; or trellises 
should be constructed, on which they can climb and have 
support, for they will always be more productive in this way 
than when suffered to trail on the ground. 
