The plants ought to be thinned to four or five inches apart. Good tillage between the rows. The seed will be ripe in July, and then the stalks should be cut off, and, when quite dry, the seed threshed out, and put by for use.

Why should any man that has a garden buy mustard? Why should he want the English to send him out, in a bottle, and sell him for a quarter of a dollar, less and worse mustard than he can raise in his garden for a penny?

The English mustard is, in general, a thing fabricated, and is as false as the glazed and pasted goods, sent out by the fraudulent fabricators of Manchester.

It is a composition of baked banes reduced to powder, some wheat flour, some coloring, and a drug of some sort that gives the pungent taste. Whoever uses that mustard freely will find a burning in his inside long after he has swallowed the mustard.

Why should any man, who has a garden, buy this poisonous stuff? The mustard seed ground in a little mustard mill is what he ought to use. He will have bran and all; and his mustard will not look yellow like the English composition; but, we do not object to Rye bread on account of its color!

Ten pounds of seed will grow upon a perch of ground; and ten pounds of mustard is more than any man can want in a year. The plants do not occupy the ground more than fourteen weeks, and may be followed by another crop of any plant, and even of mustard if you like.

This, therefore, is a very useful plant, and ought to be cultivated by every farmer, and every man who has a garden.

NASTURTIUM

An annual plant, with a half red half yellow flower, which has an offensive smell; but, it bears a seed enveloped in a fleshy pod, and that pod, taken before

the seed becomes ripe, is used as a thing to pickle. The seeds should be sown in the fall, or very early in the spring. The plants should have pretty long bushy sticks put to them; and four or five of them will bear a great quantity of pods. They will grow in almost any ground; but the better the ground the fewer of them are necessary.