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culture as Spinach ; indeed, easier, for it is a perennial 

 plant, and can be grown easily for two years without re- 

 sowing, and it yields enormous crops. The seed should 

 be sown in April, in rows twelve to fifteen inches apart, 

 and Mr. Beyer, who has been experimenting with it in 

 the climate of Iowa, says it has stood a temperature 

 of five degrees below zero, and still keeping green. He 

 believes that its great value as a salad will soon be ap- 

 preciated here, and, besides, as cattle eat it greedily, 

 it may, in some sections, prove a valuable forage plant. 



COLLARDS (SOUTHERN). (Brassica oleracea. Far.) 



Most of the Collards, as grown in this section, are 

 nothing more than sowings of any early variety of Cab- 

 bage in rows about one foot apart, which are cut off for 

 use when six or eight inches high. The Southern Col- 

 lard is a distinct variety of vigorous growth, attaining a 

 height of five or six feet, and grown in portions of the 

 South where the ordinary kinds of Cabbage fail to head. 

 Spring sowings may be made every two weeks at two feet 

 apart from February to May ; and in fall from Septem- 

 ber as late as the season will admit. 



COSN. (Zea Mays.) 



The varieties known as "Sweet" are the sorts most 

 cultivated for culinary use in the green state. It may 

 be either sown in rows four and a half feet apart, and the 

 seeds planted at eight or nine inches in the rows, or 

 planted in hills at distances of three or four feet each 

 way, according to the variety grown or the richness of 

 the soil in which it is planted. The taller the variety or 

 richer the soil, the greater should be .the distance apart. 



