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with squash or pumpkins; for its beetle spray with 

 Bordeaux or arsenicals, or both. For the western corn 

 root- worm, rotation at least every third year; keep the 

 soil rich. 



CORN, POP-. Pop-corn is raised for its mature 

 ears, which are dried and the grains popped by heat, 

 for cooking, candy-making, and eating. It is cultivated 

 like sweet corn. 



CORN -SALAD, Fetticus, Vetticost, or LamFs Let- 

 tuce ( Valerianella olitoria) is an annual salad - plant 

 grown for its leaves, which are very mild in taste; they 

 are occasionally blanched, and sometimes are cooked like 

 spinach. The plant is tender to heat, but (except for 

 the Italian Corn-Salads) hardy to frost, and is chiefly 

 grown as a fall and spring crop. In mild winters or 



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 Fig. 54. Seedlings of Corn-Salad. Two-thirds natural size. 



climates it may be gathered out-of-doors through the 

 winter; for winter use, however, it does better in a 

 coldframe. It may be planted like spinach for spring 

 use, and will winter well under a light mulch. Or it 



