Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — The Pie-Plant. [ARTICLE]

The Pie-Plant.

The pie plant is a luxurious weed that is cultivated in the garden, and the more it is cut off the better it grows. It looks not unlike the wild burdock and grows just about as high, and has a leaf on it like tobacco. The leaf of the pie-plant is about the size of an elephant’s ear, and the stalk on which the leaf grows is a delicate wine color. Out of the stalk the pie is made, and it is the first pie out of green sass that you can get in the spring. The pie plant is as sour as a country school-ma’am, and one pound of plant takes four pounds of sugar to soothe it. There is some folks think that this pie can beat the pumpkin pie, but right here is where they err. They dare not bet on it. Whefi any man tells me that such and such a pie can beat the pumpkin 1 consider that man may have sense enough to sit on a jury or perhaps assist in tending a toll gate, but for all the important duties of life he is of no more nse than an ax without any handle. But pie-plant pie is better than no pie, but it does take in the sugar the mightiest. If I was a going into the pie-plant pie speculation I should want a partner and I should let him furnish the sugar, and I would put up the roots, and we would divide the profits equal. I should say that this would be a smart thing for me to do. —Josh Billings , in N. T. Weekly.