CHICORY 



CHICORY is a plant largely used for salad purposes, but 

 it is also valuable as a vegetable when well served, as it 

 possesses properties that are rare in other vegetables. 

 Upon its use as a salad I do not intend to dwell as 

 this will be described elsewhere. For vegetable uses 

 it needs much the same culture, but a better plant is 

 required to secure fine growth. 



Those persons who have an opportunity of seeing our 



large markets in 

 towns may have ob- 

 served neat bundles 

 or baskets of Chi- 

 cory imported from 

 the continent, the 

 blanched growths 

 being somewhat 

 like Seakale, and 

 that is the edible 

 portion used as a 

 vegetable. The 

 green leaves not 



forced may also be used like Spinach, and they produce 

 so freely in the spring, when ordinary Spinach is scarce, 

 that they may be termed a good substitute. To get 

 forced material the seeds are sown in April or May 

 in deeply dug land, in rows 15 to 1 8 inches apart and 

 the seedlings thinned to 9 inches in the row. In the 

 late autumn the roots are lifted as required and placed 

 in a dark place or mushroom house, and the growths 



BROAD-LEAVED CHICORY 

 {One-eighth natural size) 



