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provements. It is grown for its leaves, used as greens and 

 occasionally for garnishing. Dandelion is usually a fall 

 and spring crop, being mostly sown in one spring and 

 finished in the next. The plants may be started under 

 glass, but are usually grown in the open, sown where 

 they are to stand, requiring little care except to pick 

 off all flowers so that they shall not go to seed and 

 become a pest. More than one cutting is possible from 

 the plants, and in the fall they may be protected under 

 frames to give a few winter cuttings. It is possible to 

 use in the garden the seed of the wild plants, but it is 

 best to get the seed of the French cultivated varieties, 

 of which seedsmen offer usually one or more. 



Soil. Any good garden soil, especially if light; the 

 richer the better. 



Distances. Rows a foot or fifteen inches apart. 



Depth. Shallow. 



Sow when the ground is fit. 



Thin to six inches or more in the rows. Thinnings 

 may be transplanted, if carefully pulled. 



Cultivate until the plants cover the ground, which 

 they will do before midsummer, if set one foot apart 

 each way. 



Fertilize occasionally with nitrate of soda or liquid 

 manure. 



Pick off all flowers. 



Cuttings of the leaves may be had in the fall, one 

 or more, especially if covered with sash. The plants 



