PRACTICAL GARDENING 



for a fall, winter, and early spring crop. The 

 two best varieties are Giant Fringed and 

 Green Curled Winter. The soil should be 

 made as rich as that prepared for lettuce. If 

 the leaves are to be tender and succulent, the 

 plant must have sufficient nitrate of soda. 

 This may be applied in September by scatter- 

 ing about one-half teaspoonful of commercial 

 nitrate of soda about each plant just before 

 a rain. 



Seed may be sown in a corner of the garden 

 the first of July to the first of August, and 

 the plants set in their permanent places after 

 the early summer crops have been removed. 

 In this way you may take two crops a season 

 from the same soil. If the rows are twelve 

 inches apart and the plants eight inches apart 

 in the rows, they have a chance to mature fully 

 by October 15. 



If endive is to be used as a salad the leaves 

 may be tied together at the top, banked or 

 boarded as you would celery, or, orange boxes 

 or flower pots may be inverted over the plants, 



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