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SALAD PLANTS 



OF THOSE plants of which we eat the prepared 

 green leaves in the raw stage we generally think 

 as salad plants. As a class, few are easier to grow. 

 Yet good salads are met with all too rarely on the home 

 table, because most people depend on the market supply. 



Since freshness and crispness of the plants are the 

 prime requisites of good salads, the best way to get them is 

 to grow them yourself. Fortunately, a good supply 

 may be grown in comparatively small space. Since nearly 

 all salad plants described in the following pages are 

 partial to shade, they may be grown quite successfully 

 in the average city garden where the sun shines but little. 



None of the salad plants are particular as to soil. But 

 as their quality depends on how quickly they may be 

 grown large enough for use, the spot in which they are 

 grown should be well enriched with plenty of rotted 

 manure. Frequent and thorough cultivation will, to a 

 certain extent, offset lack of fertility. 



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