The Busy Woman's Garden Book 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS 



These little miniatm^e cabbages, growing 

 closely together on a stalk, are delicious boiled 

 like cabbage or used as a salad. The culture is the 

 same as that accorded cabbage. The seed should 

 be sown in the hotbed in spring and set out in 

 the open ground in May in rows three feet apart 

 and about twenty inches apart in the rows. Culti- 

 vate to keep down weeds and maintain a dust- 

 mulch. By fall the little heads will be fully de- 

 veloped. The delicate flavor is improved by 

 a touch of frost. For late use sow seed in June. 



CHICORY 



Sow seed in the open ground early in spring as 

 for parsnips, thinning to stand three inches apart 

 in the rows and making the rows fifteen inches 

 apart. Dig the roots in the fall and store in a 

 dark cellar where the temperature can be con- 

 trolled. Cut the leaves off a little above the 

 root crown and place them in horizontal layers 

 with the crowns outward covering each layer, ex- 

 cepting the tip of the crown, with earth. Each 



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