KNOT GRASS. A weed-like plant (Poly gonum avicul are); also a Holcus, which produces bulbs ou its roots.
ED. Polygon?InG. There are many varieties of polygonum, including buekwheat, wild (false) buckwheat, knot-grass, smart weed, water pepper, etc., and all worthless to the farmer, except the cultivated buckwheat (Polygonum fago pyrum).
Brassie?' c(culq-Rapa. A vege table partaking of the nature of the turnip and cabbage, and hence sometimes called turnip cab bage. The leaves resemble the Swede turnip and it is peculiar in the bulb-like swelling above ground, which is the edible part. It is in great repute among our German population, and grow ing in favor among all classes, especially since the attacks of the cabbage caterpillar, has rendered that vegetable a precarious crop: The vegetable is fit for use when half grown. If allowed to attain its full growth it becomes hard and stringy.
It is eooked by being sliced and boiled like the turnip, and resembles both the cabbage and tur nip in flavor. The seeds are sown for the earliest crop in a eold frame, and thence transplanted in rich soil, in rows eighteen inches apart by twelve to fifteen inches in the row. When raised for feeding stock, the seed should be sown in May, in rows two feet apart, the plants to stand twelve inches in the row. For family use in winter the seed is sown in June and the plants set out when large enough. They are kept by packing in dry sand. The cultivation is precisely like that of -cabbage. The Early White Vienna may be sown for family use, and for stook, the large white or the large purple, which sometimes grows to a weight of eight or ten pounds.