. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Water Cress. CRESS. Garten und Brunnen Kresse, Get,. Cresson, Fr. Mas- tuerzo 6 Lepidio, Sp. Peppergrass is extensively grown and used as a small salad. Sow thickly in shallow drills, early in the spring and at intervals throughout the season, for a succession, as it soon runs to seed. The Cresses are excellent salad plants. The Water Cress requires a stream of running water, ditch or pond, in which it will grow without care, except at first keeping weeds from interfering wit
. Dreer's garden calendar for 1888. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. Water Cress. CRESS. Garten und Brunnen Kresse, Get,. Cresson, Fr. Mas- tuerzo 6 Lepidio, Sp. Peppergrass is extensively grown and used as a small salad. Sow thickly in shallow drills, early in the spring and at intervals throughout the season, for a succession, as it soon runs to seed. The Cresses are excellent salad plants. The Water Cress requires a stream of running water, ditch or pond, in which it will grow without care, except at first keeping weeds from interfering with it. It is easily introduced by planting along the margins of ditches or streams, and increases rapidly by the spreading of the roots or from the seed. The leaves are eaten with salt, and are of an agreeable, pungent taste, relished by most people. Extra Curled, or Peppergrass. Fine flavor, and the best sort for dry soils. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., I lb. 25 cts. Erfurt Water, True. A perennial aquatic plant, with small oval leaves and prostrate habit. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 Improved Large-Leaved Dandelion. DANDELION. (Taraxacum Dens-Leonis.) lowenzahn oder Pardeblume, Ger. Pitsenlit, Fr. gon, Sp. Amar- spring greens or salads. The roots, when dried and roasted. are often used as a substitute for coffee. The seed should be sown early in the spring in drills 12 inches apart, about i of an inch deep, and thin out to 6 inches in the drills; the following spring it will be fit for use. Large-Leaved Improved. Used as spring greens or salad. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts. Thick-Leaved, or Cabbaging. This variety is dou- ble the size of the common, and for salad will soon supersede it. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts. EGG-PLANT. Eicrpflanzc, Ger. Aubergine, Fr. Berengena, Sp. Sow the seed in hot-beds early in March. When 3 inches high pot the young plants, using small pots, and plunge them in the same bed, so that the plants may be- come stocky. They can be planted out, from the pots, when th
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