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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Improved Giant Erect Dandelion. 



Large Green Montmagny Dandelion. This, now largely 



grown in the vicinity of Paris, is a more vigorous form of the 



Common Dandelion. It 

 blanches well. 



Thick-leaved, or 

 Cabbaging, Dandelion. 

 A very distinct variety, 

 obtained by cultivation, and 

 surpassing the wild plant 

 not so much in the size as 

 in the very great number 

 of its leaves, which form a 

 regular tuft or clump, instead 

 of a plain rosette. It yields 

 a very abundant crop with- 

 out taking up much ground, 

 and blanches very easily 

 and, indeed, almost naturally. 

 It appears to us to be the 

 best variety that has been 

 obtained up to the present. 

 Improved Very Early Dandelion. Increasing the breadth 



of the leaves of Dandelions has resulted in fewer leaves being 



produced. The variety 



known as the Improved 



Broad-leaved Dandelion, 



forms a simple rosette of 



very large and broad 



leaves, sometimes 20 in. 



across. Its productiveness 



not being in proportion 



to the amount of space 



it occupies, it has been 



almost completely super- 

 seded by a sub-variety 



called the Improved Very 



Early Dandelion, in which 



less productiveness is com- 

 pensated for by greater 



earliness. Its leaves are 



large, and are formed as 



soon as the winter is over. 



They make a very delicate 



salad. 



Improved Giant Erect Dandelion. A distinct variety which, 



instead of forming into a rosette, like other Dandelions, grows 





Moss-leaved Dandelion. 



