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annually from seeds, and as easily, requiring no more care than the carrot 
It bears a tolerable crop. 
Use. —“ In this country it is parboiled, and then fried either in batter or 
without. It forms an admirable garnish for boiled fowls or turkeys. In its 
taste it so strongly resembles the oyster, that, when sliced and fried in batter, 
it can scarcely be distinguished from it. If our gardeners would introduce it 
mto the market, and our citizens once try it, there would be no danger of its 
*ver failing hereafter to be raised. It is in eating from November to May, 
precisely the period in which our vegetable market is most deficient in va¬ 
riety/’— John Lowell , Esq., in Mass. Agr. Repos . 
u The stalks of the tragopogon may be cut in the spring, when they are 
four or five inches high, and dressed like asparagus, in which they eat very 
lender and well.”— Rees ’ Cyclopedia. 
SAVORY. 
Satureja . 
Two species of this plant are cultivated—the winter and summer savory 
Winter savory is a hardy under-shrub, a native of the south of France and 
Italy. The shoots are furnished with two narrow, stifFleaves, an inch long, 
placed opposite at each joint, and from the base of these a few small leaves 
proceed in clusters. It produces whitish flowers in May and June. 
Summer savory is a hardy annual, a native of Italy. The branches are* 
slender, erect, and about a foot high; leaves opposite, and almost an inch in 
length. It flowers in June and July. 
Culture.— Winter savory is a perennial plant, and is propagated from seeds 
or slips ; summer savory, from seeds only. Both sorts will grow on almost 
any soil, and it is said that the winter kind grows best on barren soils. 
Use.— U Both the summer and winter savory have long been cultivated for 
culinary and medicinal purposes. Their warm, aroma* c, pungent leaves are 
much esteemed in salads : formerly, they were employed medicinally, with 
a view to attenuate viscid humors, to dispel flatulency, and to increase the 
appetite According to Professor Bradley, this herb, when dry, and put into 
a bed, possesses the remarkably property of expelling fleas.”— Bom. Encvc . 
