WATERCRESS

a semi-aquatic plant of pungent, salty, and rather bitter flavor, which is especially popular as a spring salad. It grows wild in many parts, flourishing best In running waters with sandy bottoms. Under cultivation it is generally raised in wide, shallow ditches of slowly moving water. It is e ential that the water supply be uncontaminated by sewage or other wastes. For household purposes it may be grown in the ordinary kitchen-garden if planted in trenches and copiously and regularly watered. Watercre should be more freely marketed and consumed. Besides its excel lence as a raw salad, it is very good boiled and minced as greens, particularly for service with broiled or roast meats, poultry, and game.