==American== or ==Land Cress== (=Barbarea praecox=) is of excellent quality when grown on a good border, and two or three sowings should be made in the spring and autumn in shady spots.  If the site is not naturally moist, water must be copiously given.

==Water Cress== (=Nasturtium officinale=) is so highly prized that many who are out of the reach of ordinary sources of supply would gladly cultivate it were there a reasonable prospect of success.  Assertions have been made that it can be grown in any garden without water, but we have never yet seen a sample fit to eat which has been grown without assistance from the water can.  A running stream is not necessary.  Make a trench in a shady spot, and well enrich the soil at the bottom of it.  In this sow the seed in March, and when the plants are established keep the soil well moistened.  The more freely this is done the better will be the result.  Other sowings may be made in April, August, and September.  We have seen Water Cress successfully cultivated in pots and pans immersed in saucers of water placed in shady positions.

==Cucumber==

==Cucumis sativus==

The Cucumber is everywhere valued.  Its exceeding usefulness explains its popularity, and happily the plant is of an accommodating character.  In large establishments, Cucumbers are grown at all seasons of the year; in medium-sized gardens, summer Cucumbers are generally deemed sufficient, and there is no difficulty in growing an abundant and continuous supply of the finest quality.  The winter cultivation demands suitable appliances and skilful management; but a very small house, with an efficient heating apparatus, will suffice to produce a large and constant supply, and therefore winter Cucumbers need not be regarded as beyond the range of practice of any ordinary well-kept garden.

==Frame Cucumbers== are the most in demand, and the easiest to grow.  The very first point for the cultivator is to determine when to begin, for the rule is to begin too early, and to waste time and opportunity in consequence.  We will suppose the Cucumbers are to be grown in a two-light frame, for which will be required four good cartloads of stable manure.  This should be put in a heap three weeks before the bed is made up, and the bed will have to last until the season is sufficiently advanced to sustain the heat without any further fermentation.  Considering these points, it will be understood that it is a far safer proceeding to begin the first week in April than the first week in March, and unless the way is clearly seen, the later date is certainly preferable, for it reduces to a minimum the conflict with time in the matter of bottom heat.  Make up the heap; then, early in March, turn it twice, and at the end of the month prepare the bed, firming the stuff with a fork as the work proceeds, but taking care not to tread on the bed.  Put on the lights and leave the affair for five or six days; then lay down a bed of rich