. California gardening. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. CRESS OR PEPPER GRASS Cresson, Fr. Agrctto, Ital. Berro o Mastuerzo, Kresse, Ger. NoteâPrices listed are postpaid. CULTURE There are many kinds of cress, all characterized by a more or less pungent taste. They are used in salads and for dishes. Water cress is grown in almost any ditch, shallow stream, or moist earth, and also under benches in greenhouses. It is a peren- nial
. California gardening. Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. CRESS OR PEPPER GRASS Cresson, Fr. Agrctto, Ital. Berro o Mastuerzo, Kresse, Ger. NoteâPrices listed are postpaid. CULTURE There are many kinds of cress, all characterized by a more or less pungent taste. They are used in salads and for dishes. Water cress is grown in almost any ditch, shallow stream, or moist earth, and also under benches in greenhouses. It is a peren- nial and is propagated by scattering either seeds or freshly cut stems where the plants are wanted to grow. Pepper grass or cress should be sown thickly in drills every few days if a succession is wanted. One ounce will sow 200 feet of row. FINE CURLED (Pepper Grass). '^^?^'^ very seeds sown thinly in drills. Leaves are finely curled and very ornamental but as the plant runs quickly to seed, frequent plantings should be made. The flavor resembles that of mustard. Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; % lb. 35c; 1 lb. WATER CRESS ^ heavy foliaged plant, ' v,-^c33. adapted to water culture. It has a slightly pungent taste. Pkt. 5c; oz 40c; 14 lb. $; 1 lb. $ DANDELION NoteâPrices listed are postpaid. CULTURE "'^^'^ greens and is â much prized by epicures. Sow seeds in the spring in rows 1 foot apart and thin plants to stand 1 ft. apart in the row bandy loam soil is best suited. An early, large broad-leaved variety. Pkt. 5c; oz. 75c. LEEK Poireau, Fr. Porro, Ital. Puerro, Sp. Lauch, Ger. CULTURF Leek is a very hardy plant with ⢠a sweet onion-like flavor. It re- sembles the young onion growth in the spring as it does not bulb. The necks or stems are blanched by drawing the earth up about them as the plant grows in size or they can be transplanted to trench- es and the trench gradually filled as the plant grows. They should be planted in drills or rows 24 inches apart and the plants 6 i
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