es make an excellent small salad; having the warm,
pleasant flavor of Cress.

WHITE MUSTARD.

Sinapis alba.

White Mustard is a hardy annual, introduced from Europe, and
occasionally found growing spontaneously in the vicinity of fields and
gardens where it has been once cultivated. The stem is three feet and
upwards in height; the leaves are large, deeply lobed, and of a rich,
deep-green color; the flowers are large, yellow, produced in loose,
terminal spikes; the seeds are yellow, much larger than those of the
preceding species, and retain their vitality five years,--seventy-five
hundred are contained in an ounce.

_Propagation._--White Mustard is always raised from seeds; about four
quarts of which will be necessary for seeding an acre. When grown for
salad, an ounce will sow forty feet of drill.

_Soil and Cultivation._--It succeeds best in rich, loamy soil; which,
previously to sowing, should be thoroughly pulverized. When cultivated
in the vegetable garden for salad or greens, the first sowing may be
made as early in the season as the frost will admit. Sow the seeds
thickly, in drills eight or ten inches apart; and cover half an inch
deep with fine mould. Remove all weeds as they make their appearance;
and, in continued dry weather, water freely.

The plants should be cut for use while in the seed-leaf; as, when much
developed, they become strong, rank, and ill-flavored.

For a succession, a small sowing may be made every week until September.

In field culture, the seeds are sometimes sown broadcast; but the more
common method is to sow in drills fifteen or eighteen inches apart. When
the crop is ready for harvesting, the plants are cut to the ground,
stored and threshed, as directed for Black Mustard.

_Use._--The plants, before the development of the rough leaves, are used
as salad: when more advanced, they are boiled and eaten as Spinach. The
flour of the seeds furnishes a table mustard of good quality; though the
seeds of the Black species possess greater piquancy, and are generally
employed for the purpose. The seeds of both species are much used in
medicine, and are considered equally efficacious.

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NASTURTIUM.

Indian Cress. Capucine, of the French. Tropaeolum, sp. et var.

This plant is a native of Peru; and, though generally treated as an
annual, is a tender perennial. When cultivated for its flowers or seeds,
it should be planted in poor, light