Watertown Republican

Midwinter Salad from Japan.

One of the products of Japanese farms which may become popular and its cultivation profitable among the nations of the west is movashi udo, a remarkable salad plant, which is crisper than celery, possesses the combined flavor of pineapple and young lettuce, is devoid of fibers and comes into outdoor maturity in midwinter. It is predicted by American scientific agriculturalists who have been in Japan and noted the flavor, popularity and growing habits of the udo plant, that it is destined to become as famous and as important a table delicacy in Europe and America as asparagus or celery.

The udo plant has been grown in the United States purely as a rare ornamental, as it was not supposed to be edible. Now that it is known to possess a value which promises to give it an honorable place with asparagus and similar dishes, its cultivation by American truck farmers may prove decidedly profitable. It is to be remembered that what gives the udo distinctive value is that it matures in the winter time. When served udo salad is as white as snow, and lustrous like silk.—Booklovers Magazine.