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becoming popular as a salad plant, the leaves of which 

 are boiled as kale, turnip leaves or young cabbage. On 

 account of this use now made of it, the name of Georgia 

 Salad is sometimes applied to it. It is sown here in 

 September, either broadcast or in drills twelve to fifteen 

 inches apart, and affords excellent pasturage for sheep 

 and hogs, as well as salad for man. 



Dwarf Essex is the variety usually planted. If sown 

 for pasturage, use about two to three pounds of seed 

 broadcast. If for salad, sow in drills twelve to eighteen 

 inches, and thin as used to stand four to six inches in 

 the row. If the tops are cut back, it will branch and 

 continue longer in use. A severe freeze following a 

 warm growing season in winter will kill the plants, but 

 they may be renewed by early spring sowing. While 

 this makes a very good boiled salad, it is neither so 

 handsome a plant nor is it so hardy as kale. There are 

 few more beautiful foliage plants than Scotch Curled or 

 Norfolk kale, which, sown in August, affords excellent 

 salad through the entire winter. 



RHUBARB, OR PIE -PLANT 



This is a perennial of the Rumex family which is 

 cultivated for its leaf -stalk, and as soon as fully grown 

 is slipped from the stalk, the outer skin removed and 

 then cut across into pieces half to an inch long and 

 made into pies. Since it is ready for use very early in the 

 spring, before there is fruit, it is much enjoyed and 

 should have a place in every garden. It is perennial, 

 prefers a rich sandy loam and should be heavily fertilized 



