HOOT CROPS, ETC. 



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Cabbage. 



Swedish turnip, and the common turnip. Both forms of turnips 

 consist of a thickened stem and root. The kohl-rabi has a stem 

 which forms a turniplike enlargement above the ground. In the 

 cabbage we find round, 

 thick, and fleshy, strongly 

 veined leaves which form a 

 rounded head on the sum- 

 mit of a short and stout 

 stem. This plant is a bien- 

 nial and consequently waits 

 until the second year before 

 forming its seed. 



Cauliflower and broccoli 

 have nearly all the nourish- 

 ing matter concentrated in 

 short, imperfect flower 

 branches collected into a 

 flat head. Kale is very much like the natural form of the parent 

 species in that its fleshy leaves do not form a head. The plant 



known as Brussels sprouts 

 has numerous small heads 

 along the stem below the 

 top leaves. Common tur- 

 nips and rutabagas or 

 Swedish turnips are both 

 valuable stock foods and 

 grow well in cool, damp 

 climates. They may be 

 sown in beds or rows ac- 

 cording to the taste of the 

 planter. The seed should 

 be sown at a depth of one 

 fourth to one half an inch. 

 In growing cabbage the 

 seed may be sown in beds and the young plants transplanted 

 twenty to thirty inches apart. 



Radish. This plant is one of our common vegetables with 

 which all are familiar. In sowing we should scatter from fifty to 



Cauliflower. 



