rs in the manner of some kinds
of Parsley. It is used as a salad, and is also employed as a garnish.
It is very liable to degenerate by becoming gradually less curled. To
keep the variety pure, select only the finest curled plants for seed.

GOLDEN CRESS. _Trans._

This variety is of slower growth than the Common Cress. The leaves are
of a yellowish-green, flat, oblong, scalloped on the borders, sometimes
entire, and of a much thinner texture than any of the varieties of the
Common Cress. It is very dwarf; and is consequently short, when cut as a
salad-herb for use. It has a mild and delicate flavor. When run to
flower, it does not exceed eighteen inches in height.

It deserves more general cultivation, as affording a pleasant addition
to the varieties of small salads.

The seeds are of a paler color, or more yellow, than those of the other
sorts.

NORMANDY CURLED CRESS. _M'int._

A very excellent variety, introduced by Mr. Charles M'Intosh, and
described as being hardier than the other kinds, and therefore better
adapted for sowing early in spring or late in summer.

The leaves are finely cut and curled, and make not only a good salad,
but a beautiful garnish. The seed should be sown thinly, in good soil,
in drills six inches apart. In gathering, instead of cutting the plants
over, the leaves should be picked off singly. After this operation,
fresh leaves are soon put forth.

It is difficult to procure the seed true; the Common Curled being, in
general, substituted for it.

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CUCKOO FLOWER.

Small Water-cress. Cardamine pratensis.

A hardy, perennial plant, introduced from Europe, and naturalized to a
limited extent in some of the Northern States. Stem about fifteen inches
high, erect, smooth; leaves deeply divided,--the divisions of the
radical or root leaves rounded, those of the stalk long, narrow, and
pointed; the flowers are comparatively large, white, or rose-colored,
and produced in erect, terminal clusters; the seeds are of a brown
color, small, oblong, shortened on one side, rounded on the opposite,
and retain their vegetating powers four years,--nearly thirty thousand
are contained in an ounce.

_Soil._--It succeeds best in moist, loamy soil; and should have a shady
situation.

_Propagation and Cultivation._--It may be propagated from seeds, or by a
division of the roots. The seeds are sown in April or May, in shallow
drills a foot asunder. The ro