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GARDEN SEEDS &1
Green Curled Endive.
ENDIVE
Sow the seed in June or July in sliallow drills and thin the plants out
to 6 inches apart. When nearly full grown tie the outer leaves together
to blanch.
1 oz. to 300 feet of drill.
GREEN CURLED ENDIVE
The "Cliiooree Frisee" of the French.
An excellent salad plant, available long after the season for Lettuce,
and more easily grown. The flavor is pleasantly bitter, stimulating and
zest-giving. Is used also boiled as greens.
Green Curled is the best for general use, and is easily blanched by
covering the full-grown plants with boards or pieces of slate. After
severe frost the plants may be removed and planted closely in a cellar
for winter u?e. The seed should be sown in rows about 2 feet apart and
V2 inch deep in the drill. "When sufficiently grown, thin the plants out to
8 inches apart and cultivate thoroughly while^ grooving. A very early
crop may be grown by starting the seed in hotbed, "greenhouse, or window
box. Good results come from early spring sowing, and even better, when
treated as a fall crop. Successional sowings during July give a continu-
ous supply after cool weather, and with a slight covering the plants may
be kept in good condition well into November. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15e; % lb.,
40c; lb., $1.25.
White Curled — Finely cut and very tender, easily blanched. Pkt., 5c;
oz., 15c; % lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Moss Curled — Forms large compact clusters of divided leaves, which are
rich creamy white and very tender when blanched. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c;
Vi lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
Broad-Leaved Batavian Endive (Escarolle) — Heads and leaves large.
Excellent for salads, when blanched. It is also boiled as greens.
Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; % lb., 40c; lb., $1.25.
DANDELION
Sow in shallow drills in spring and keep
free from weeds in summer. Mulch over
winter and the young blanched leaves will be
ready for use early the following spring.
Lar^e Leaved — Pkt., 10c; oz., 75c.
GARLIC
Divide the bulbs and plant in rows a foot
apart and four inches in the row, covering
two inches.
Garlic Sets — 14 lb., 20c; lb., 50c.
KOHL-RABI
Sow the seed early in spring and trans-
plant first of June in rows 18 inches apart and
6 inches apart in the rows. 1 oz. to 3,000
plants.
The seed may be sown in the open ground
in drills and the plants thinned out to 6
inches apart. One ,ounce of seed will sow
300 feet of drill.
Kohl-rabi is especially adapted to the back
yard garden. It resembles a turnip in flavor,
and is prepared for the table in the same way,
but it does not grow underground, forming a
bulb instead, a few inches above the roots,
from which numerous leaf stalks shoot out.
when kohl-rabi is about the size of a baseball,
it is ready to be cut for the table. If allowed
to grow much larger it gets tough and woody.
Kohl-rabi will grow in almost any soil, and
is ready for use in a few weeks from the time
the seed is sown. Moreover, a succes.sion can
be obtained all summer by mowing seeds at
intervals of two weeks, and the crop can be
stored in sand in the cellar for winter.
EARLIEST SHORT - LEAVED FORCING
AVHITE VIENNA KOHL-RABI SELECTED
The best for forcing, flesh white and ten-
der. Pkt., lOc; oz., 25c; V^ lb., 75c; 1 lb.,
Early Purple Vienna — A favorite early va-
riety, with purple skin, fiesh white. Pkt.,
10c; oz., 25c; % lb., 65c; 1 lb., $2.25.
Early AVhite Vienna — Generally used for
open-ground cultivation. Pkt., 10c; oz.,
25e; % lb., 65c; 1 lb., .'52.25.
Kohl-Rabi.