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the fall, and left to remain in the open over winter, but 

 in our northern sections, while plants will often winter 

 well outdoors, the winters usually are too severe, and 

 after the manner given for storing cabbage, plants are 

 there taken up in autumn and stored in trenches or in a 

 cool cellar. In early spring they are set out in rows four 

 feet apart, two feet in the row. Those plants which 

 were transplanted in the preceding autumn and left in 

 the field over winter, are not disturbed in spring. 



Take care of the crop, harvest, clean, etc. , after the 

 manner as given for borecole and cabbage, to which 

 refer. 



Market. Kohlrabi seed for the kitchen and market 

 garden is sold in moderate quantities by all American 

 dealers, while in Europe the vegetable is grown exten- 

 sively for cattle-feeding, being considered there, for that 

 purpose, equal, if not superior, to the best ruta baga. 



At present, practically all the seed used by the 

 American trade is imported from Europe, but there is 

 no necessity for any importation, as it could all be 

 grown here. Yield of seed and prices range about the 

 same as for cabbage. 



LEEK. 



This vegetable is a hardy member of the onion fam- 

 ily. Seed is sown first in seed bed in spring and later 

 transplanted into rows 15 inches apart, 6 inches be- 

 tween the plants; or seed may be sown in drills same 

 distance apart, thinning plants afterwards to 6 inches 

 apart without transplanting. It stands winter without 

 protection, and seed is produced in the second year. 

 Treatment, harvesting and cleaning are very similar to 

 onion, and attention is, therefore, directed for particu- 

 lars for such matters as they will be found given here- 



