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day. By sucli management, one or the other must suffer for 

 want of suitable aliment, heat being the principal food of 

 tender plants, and air that of the more hardy species. 



ENDIVE, OR SUCCORY. 



CHICOREE DES JARDINS. Cichorium endiva, etc. 



The Chicorium endiva is a native of China and Japan, and 

 is much used in salads and stews, and as a garnish for the table. 

 The proper kind of seed for early sowing is the Green 

 Curled. A small quantity of this may be sown at different 

 times in April and May, by those who would have it early. 

 This plant is apt to run to seed. For this reason, it will be 

 best to delay the sowing of seed for general crops until 

 June or July. If a small quantity of each esteemed variety 

 be sown two or three times in these months, they will produce 

 a plentiful supply for use in autumn and the early part of 

 winter. One ounce of good Endive-seed will produce about 

 five thousand plants. 



When the plants are three or four inches high, they 

 should be transplanted into good ground, at the distance 

 of a foot from each other, and immediately watered. If they 

 are set out in cloudy or wet weather, it will save this 

 trouble. The plants will require to be hoed and attended 

 to in the same manner as lettuce, until grown to a mode- 

 rate size, when they must be blanched. Select the large 

 and full-hearted plants, and with bass or other strings tie 

 them a little above the middle, not too tight, previously 

 gathering up the leaves regularly in the hand. This must 

 be done when the leaves are very dry, otherwise the plants 

 will rot. Cichorium intybus grows spontaneously in many 

 parts of Europe and America. In France it is much cul- 

 tivated ; the tops of the plants are considered profitable for 

 cattle, and the roots are taken up in autumn and dried. 



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