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Uses are chiefly in soups, but Okra, when boiled, is 

 excellent served hot or else as a cold salad. Some per- 

 sons have to acquire the taste. For various recipes, see 

 Farmers' Bulletin No. 232. 



Okra may be canned, or may be dried and kept for 

 winter use. To dry, string and hang up. In the South 

 the mature seed is sometimes roasted and ground for 

 use as coffee. 



Do not cook in iron, copper, or brass, or the pods 

 will be discolored and perhaps rendered poisonous. 



Diseases, not mentioned in Farmers 1 Bulletin No. 

 232, are elsewhere reported as so troublesome that the 

 plant cannot be grown in some localities. Rotation is 

 given as the remedy. 



Pests are not dangerous. 



OLD MAN. See Rosemary. 



ONION (Allium Cepa) is the chief of a very im- 

 portant vegetable family, and has been grown from 

 antiquity for its bulbs, used for seasoning and cooking, 

 for pickling, and for eating raw. It is a biennial and 

 in some of its forms a perennial plant, and is grown as 

 an annual or a biennial. Onions are propagated from 

 seed (which should always be of the very best), from 

 bulbs, from parts of compound bulbs, and from "tops," 

 or bulbs formed on the tops of the flower-stalks. Grow- 

 ing from seeds require the best of physical condition 



