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SALSIFY, OR OYSTER PLANT (Tragopogon porrifolms.) Salsify 

 succeeds well under the same treatment required for carrots and 

 other root crops. Seed for an early crop may be sown in August, 

 and for the general crop in October. Sow the seed in drills about 

 fifteen inches apart, and thin the plants to six inches. The young 

 leaves, when blanched, may be used as a vegetable. The roots 

 are boiled or stewed like carrots and parsnips, or half boiled and 

 grated fine, made into small Hat balls, and dipped into batter and 

 fried like oysters, which they strongly resemble. 



SCORZONERA, OR BLACK OYSTER PLANT (Scorzoncra Jrispdnica.} 

 Culture the same as recommended for salsify. Similar in many 

 respects to salsify, and is called by some the black oyster plant. It 

 is cultivated exclusively for the roots, which may be boiled and 

 served plain like parsnips. Before cooking, the outer coarse rind 

 should be scraped off, and the roots soaked in cold water for a few 

 hours to extract their bitter flavor. 



SEA KALE (Crambc maritima.} Sea kale will succeed well in 

 any ordinary garden soil. Sow the seed in August and September 

 in drills two feet apart, and thin the plants to a foot apart. For 

 blanching, the plants should be covered with pots, boxes, or casks, 

 or the like, and covered with fresh dung in such quantities as will 

 produce a gentle and prolonged heat. They are ready for use 

 when they have grown the length of a few inches. 



SPINACH (Spiuacca oleracca.} The soil for spinach requires to 

 be made very rich, so as to grow it quickly, and obtain the largest 

 weight of leaves. The round spinach is grown for summer use, 

 and the prickly or Flanders varieties for winter. The first sowing 

 may be made as soon as the first autumn rains have fallen, and 

 successional sowings once a month until the weather becomes too 

 dry, unless water is plentiful, when sowing may be continued 

 throughout the year. The seed should be sown thinly in drills, 

 which, in winter, should be eighteen inches or more apart, and the 

 plants thinned to twelve inches ; the spring and summer crops 

 need not stand further apart than half that distance. In gathering 

 the leaves for use, they are taken singly from the winter crops as 

 they attain full size, but in summer the whole plant may be cut off 

 by the ground. 



SCH'ASH (Cncurbita inchpepo.) Cultivation. The squash is 

 closely related to the pumpkin and vegetable marrow, except the 

 bush varieties, which do not run, and require so much room. 



STACHYS TruKuiKKKA (Chinese Artichoke.) Cultivation. This 

 plant grows to a height of fifteen inches, being free and branching ; 

 from the axis spring a number of line roots on which the tubers are 

 produced, about two inches in length, and make a nice salad, 

 resembling the taste of the radish, and when cooked and served 

 with melted butter in much the same manner as the globe artichoke, 

 they are delicious in flavour. The roots should be planted in rcws 

 two feet apart, and nine to twelve inches from each root. 



