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Time : late spring or beginning of summer at the North ; 

 at the South in early fall ; and in the far South it may also 

 be sown with the very earliest spring crops for summer use. 



At New York in all May or beginning of June. 



The salsafy has rather a narrow, flag-like leaf, and its root 

 resembles a small white parsnep. 



In localities where veritable oysters are not readily obtained, 

 it affords an agreeable substitute. For this purpose, the root 

 should be washed and grated, seasoned to taste, mixed with 

 a batter made of milk and flour, and made light either with 

 soda and cream of tartar or eggs, and fried with sweet fat in 

 small cakes. It is also occasionally used in soups, or boiled 

 and mashed as squash. 



SCORZONERA. 

 French, Scorzonere. German, ScorzionerwurzeL Spanish, Es$orzonera. 



Sown and treated precisely as salsafy, used for the same 

 general purposes, and scarcely at all differing from it except 

 in being too bitter to use without previous soaking. 



SEA KALE. 



French, Chou Marin. German, Meerkohl. Spanish, Breton de Mar. Col 



Marina. 



Sow in early spring, in rich soil, in a drill an inch deep, 

 and cover carefully and rather firmly. 



Keep the young plants clean throughout the season, and in 

 the following spring plant them out where they are to stand, 

 in deep and very rich soil, in rows four or five feet wide, set- 

 ting the plants eighteen inches apart in the row. 



Hoe often and deeply through the season, and after the tops 

 die in the fall, ridge up the earth from the intervals over the 

 crowns of the plants to a depth of fifteen or eighteen inches. 

 In the spring they will push up through this ridge a tender, 

 white, fleshy growth, which may be cut near the crown of the 

 plant by opening the side of the ridge, or removing it entirely 

 from the plants you gather. These branched stems are cooked 

 and eaten as asparagus. 



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