This section is from the book "Cooking Vegetables. Practical American Cookery", by Jules Arthur Harder. Also available from Amazon: The Physiology Of Taste.
Scorpiure. Baupenpflanzen.
No. 404. - A hardy annual plant with creeping stems, that are about two feet in length. The seeds are produced in pods. No part of the plant is eatable, but the pods, in their green state, are placed upon dishes of salad, and so closely do they resemble a real caterpillar, that they will oftentimes deceive the uninitiated.
No. 405. - Sow them in April, fifteen inches apart, in rows that are fifteen inches wide.
 
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