THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



plants to exclude the light, they will grow 

 up tall and white and he crisp and tender, 

 quite another thing from the stalks of the 

 uncovered plant. It is generally enough to 

 cover four plants to begin with, and then as 

 soon as one plant has been cut, to move the 

 barrel to another plant, and so on. 



Salsify. Sow salsify or vegetable oyster 

 as early as the ground can be worked and 

 treat it in every way like the parsnip. 



Spinach. Seed for early Spring spinach 

 should be sowed in October, well covered 

 with leaves or coarse litter at the end of 

 November and uncovered at the end of 

 March. By the 20th of April it should be 

 ready to gather. Spinach treated in this 

 manner has always survived the Winter, ex- 

 cept the last terrible one. If it is not 

 thought desirable to run the risk of Autumn 

 sowing, then sow the seed the moment the 

 frost is out of the ground in the Spring, 

 and the crop will be ready by the middle 

 of May. Spinach for a Fall crop should 

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