Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1859 — GREENS. [ARTICLE]

GREENS.

Early in Spr’ng,everybody, in cities, wants greens, and everybody in the country aught to have them. Every farmer can have them. In t is county especially, where fruit is scarce, everybody aught to have them. Greens are wholesome. They are palatable. I hey cure many diseases’ an I prevent more. Greens prevent or cure the scurry, save quinine, prevent fevers, purify the blood, mend the rheumatisms, save pills, cash and time, and for agues, coughs colds and consumptions have no parallel, superior or equal. Garden Chess is the first thing, fit for greens, that grows in the Spring. This pla t grows without cultivation, but much better with. . . ( oivslips.—This vegituble grows wild about the edges of wet prairie lun.ls, duckponds and marshes generally: ha- a deep green, thick lea', with yellow bloss ms. They start up about the first of April, are a pleasant wholsome bitter, medicinal, laxative, and are nutricious. Th s plant m y be cul ivated to advantage by merely digging up the roots in the spring and re-setting them in any place about the farm er garden where they may be, at any time convenient to gather for table use. Boil with bacon. Dandalion.—This is an excellent, variety of greens, grows wild but may be vastly improved by transplant ing into rich soil and well cultivated. Comes in all the spring months. Cook with meat. Turnips, Cabbage- stumps, Rutabagas, if set out in April, grow rapidly and furnish greens very palitable to many persons. Early Beets, it sowed in drills or broadcast and raked in, when large enough to cook, tops and roots t< gether, are highly relished by many people. Water Cress, is a species of dwarf mu - tard and grows best at the bottom of clear, cold sandy bottomed creeks, and is highly prized by many as a tender and excellent variety of greens. Good in May and June. Garden Mustard in two sorts, the common pungent black, and the double yellow.. Each has its favorites. When boiled is rough to the taste. Seed grows if sown either in Autumn or Spring. Thrives best on rich land and is ready for May and June. Spinnach.—This resembles the beet, in ap earunce and flavor. Is delicate and tender, a small patch one rod square, sowed on rich mellow soil, and raked in, first of May, is fit for use in June and is abundant for a family. There are many other plants used for greens, such as the lamb-quarter, shepardgrass, cow-cabbage, sour-dock, several kinds of , sorrel and others, of which time would fail to speak particularly, all good in their season all serve to make up the varieties of a well set table, they add to the sum of human happiness; give xest to the appetite, sustain the vigor of health, and lengthen life and its cheer.