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Definition of Common garden cress
1. Noun. Annual herb used as salad green and garnish.
Terms within: Garden Cress
Generic synonyms: Cress, Cress Plant
Group relationships: Genus Lepidium, Lepidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Garden Cress
Literary usage of Common garden cress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"When forced and blanched it makes a salad fit for the most cultivated epicure.
For ordinary home cultivation and use, however, the common garden cress ..."
2. The Principles of Vegetable-gardening by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"The common garden cress (Lepidium sativum)>A$ a short-season annual. Figi 109.
It is a cool-weather plant. Usually the leaves are not desired in the~snm- ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"Our common garden cress is also a Lepidium, and we may remember that Sir Edward
Parry, during his Arctic explorations, grew it on the flues of his cabin, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"The common cresses are the English water cress; the American water cress; common
garden cress and the Indian cress. The water cress is an aquatic plant, ..."
5. The Library of Agricultural and Horticultural Knowledge: With an Appendix on by John Baxter (1830)
"2. The seeds, for druggists, distillers, confectioners, &c. CRESS. Three varieties
of cress are cultivated in our gardens. 1. common garden cress ..."
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