. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Connecticut New Haven. Cress or Pepper Grass. Upland Cress. CRESS OR PEPPER GRASS. Extensively used as a small salad. Sow early in the spring, very thickly in shallow drills. The sowings should be repeated at intervals, as it soon runs to seed. One ounce of seed will sow a bed of sixteen square feet. Add at the rate of 8c. per pound, for 34 pound and upward, if to be sent by mail. Extra Curled. Fine curly-leaved,
. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Connecticut New Haven. Cress or Pepper Grass. Upland Cress. CRESS OR PEPPER GRASS. Extensively used as a small salad. Sow early in the spring, very thickly in shallow drills. The sowings should be repeated at intervals, as it soon runs to seed. One ounce of seed will sow a bed of sixteen square feet. Add at the rate of 8c. per pound, for 34 pound and upward, if to be sent by mail. Extra Curled. Fine curly-leaved, pungent and refreshing. Price per pkt., 5c; per oz., 10c; per lb., 40c. Upland. Resembles the water cress in taste; same culture as spinach, a perennial plant. Per pkt., ioc. CRESS (Water). This is a well-known hardy, perennial aquatic plant, growing abundantly along the margins of running streams, ditches and ponds. Where it does not grow naturally it is easily introduced by planting along the margins of ponds or streams, where it increases, both by spreading of the roots and by seeding. It has a particularly pleasant taste, agreeable to most people. True Water Cress. Price per pkt., ioc; per oz., 35c. Water Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Frank S. Platt (Firm); Platt, Frank S; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. New Haven, Conn. : Frank S. Platt
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