Cress will flourish in any fair garden soil, and is always best when grown early or late in the season.
This differs from the Common Tansy in the frilled or curled character of the leaves, which have some resemblance to the leaves of the finer kinds of Curled Cress or Parsley.
For mixing with Cressor Lettuce, the plants are cut to the ground before the development of the second leaves.
Water-cress is of the best quality when grown in running streams and gravelly soil.
The Common Cress of the garden is a hardy annual, and a native of Persia.
The shoots are cut for market, not broken off, as is the usual mode of gathering Cress in its natural state, and which is found to be very injurious to the plants in the beds.
The leaves have the warm, pungent taste common to the Cress family; and are used in their young state, like Cress, as a salad.
She was as content on a draught of water and a bunch of cress as others are on rarest meats and wines.
At noonday the players halted and threw themselves down beneath a poplar-tree, in a wild rose thicket, to eat their noonday meal of bread and a green cress salad.
In a similar manner, wire one less of the crystallized cress leaves.
Unmold and cut in thin slices with a sharp knife, then if liked garnish with cress and sliced lemon and serve.
If you have not been careful to sow only the tiniest pinch mixed with sand, you will soon see the seedlings as thick as cress above the soil, and if you leave them you will not have any good plants, as Poppies want room to grow.
Mustard and Cress must be cut the moment it is ready, while the seed leaves are tender, green, and short.
In your border try to grow a few Lettuces and Radishes, and some Mustard and Cress for the schoolroom tea.
If you leave it till it is more than about an inch high, the Mustard is too hot and the Cress is coarse.
They will not be ready, however, for your early crops of Cress and Lettuce, as they grow slowly.
Drain, marinate in French dressing, and serve on cress or lettuce with Mayonnaise.
Lay an oyster on each piece and serve on a plate with a garnish of cress and lemon.
Drain and serve on lettuce or cress with Mayonnaise.
CRESS SALAD--II Cut thin slices of sour apples and hard-boiled eggs into bits and mix with watercress.
XXVII Fry small rounds of bread, spread with anchovy paste, lay a slice of tomato on each and serve ice cold, garnishing with cress or parsley.
To make this delectable fish sauce, mix one ounce fresh butter with a teaspoonful each chopped parsley and lemon juice, half teaspoonful chopped mixed tarragon and cress or chervil and salt and pepper to season.
Remove from the bag, lift carefully on to a hot platter, garnish with water cress or parslied lemon slices and serve.
Garnish with a little finely chopped parsley or sprigs of water cress and serve with paper-bag baked potatoes.
Garnish the plate on which the fish are served with cress and slices of lemon rolled in finely minced parsley.
You made a great fuss in your letter about their gorging on boar's head and pastry while your festival consists of a mouthful of cress or thyme or onion.
Upland cressor "pepper grass" grows in ordinary garden soil, being one of the very first salads.
A conveyance was immediately sent to the place to bring her to Matopo Mission, and by the time that reached their mission Brother Cress also was sick.
Brother Cress spoke in English to the white people present, while the natives were addressed by the writer from 2 Tim.
Brother Cress arrived near noon the next day, but the doctor did not arrive in time.
So after Brother and Sister Cress came, or as soon as they had some little knowledge of the language and of the work, they desired to open another station.
Brother Cresshad left that day to go as far as the fort on his way to Bulawayo, and he was also to be informed.
All of us accompanied Mother Engle and Brother Cressto Bulawayo, where they rested for a day and then took the train for Cape Town, while we returned to continue the work.
The third week in January, 1900, a messenger arrived to inform us that Sister Cress had been stricken with fever.
Brother Cress recovered from his illness, but concluded that it was best for him to return to America, and wrote the Board accordingly.
These were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Cress and Mr. Isaac Lehman.
This time it was Brethren Cress and Lehman who made the coffin.
The meal was soon ready, and consisted of cress fresh from the spring, fried cress, and toasted cress, with cress tea, and also freshly drawn water from a spring.
So, after the horse had all the water-cress it could eat, the little party started back to the city.
A table was spread, with a great dish of water-cress in the centre.
And, in the meantime, what could be more appropriate for a wedding-repast than the basket of cress which my daughter brought with her?
The Prince accepted with thankfulness the kind offer of his host, and when he approached the daughter to take leave of her, she graciously stuck a sprig of water-cress in his buttonhole.
Chaucer calls the Cress by its old Saxon name of Kers, which may possibly have been the origin of the vulgar saying of not caring a "curse" for anything--meaning a Cress.
He stepped across the water cress bed and looked over the wall and there saw a stream of water about four feet wide (doubtless swollen by the recent shower,) and just about twenty feet down stream two posts stood--one in either bank.
A bed of water cress about six feet wide grew at the bottom of the Clark garden, and Elder Farrell walked down there to gather some water cress for supper.
In the sash or wrapper, which all wear round the waist, they had their cress or dagger stuck, the scabbard of which was a case of wood.
The food plants of Cardamines include the cuckoo-flower (Cardamine pratensis) and the bitter cress (C.
A dish of mustard and cress sandwiches should be served with them.
The cress should be cut frequently, as the young shoots are most succulent and tender.
Water cressculture is profitable in favored locations.
Took a walk round the garden, and discovered a beautiful spot for sowing mustard-and-cress and radishes.
The small tender plants are in daily use, and appear in the salad bowl with Water Cress and Corn Salad, delicately dressed with delicious flavourings.
Mustard and Cress should never be sown in the same row or in the same pan, but separately, because they do not grow at the same pace, and the former may be fit for use a week or so before the latter.
It is important to cutCress when it is just ready--tender, green, short, and plump.
From small sowings at frequent intervals under glass a constant supply ofCress may be kept up through the cold months of the year, for which purpose shallow boxes or pans will be found most convenient.
The first of all was the ‘water-cress girl’ who was employed for her earliest work for the publishers.
Your little boy sowed mustard and cress yesterday in his garden.
There is no probability that his mustard and cress will come to anything, for he will not let it alone long enough for it to grow.
Indian cress or Tropaeolum majus loses the spur in some double varieties and with it most of its symmetrical structure; it seems to be considered justly as a peloric malformation.
The Indian cress (Tropaeolum), the marsh pennywort or Hydrocotyle, and many other instances could be quoted.
Sometimes the degree of impurity is so high, that great piles of discarded plants of the same species lie about the [193] paths, as I have seen at Erfurt in the ease of numerous varieties of the Indian cress or Tropaeolum.
A double daffodil looks horribly out of place, while the double white rock cress (Arabis albida) will pass.
The same is true of the white rock cress (Arabis albida).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
