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equally agreeable as a salad, and its appearance, either 

 green or blanched, is particularly handsome, and is now 

 being much used for garnishing in our best hotels. 



Broad-leaved Ratavian. A loose growing variety, 

 forming but little heart. As with this blanching can 

 only be accomplished by tying up, it is not so desirable as 

 either of the preceding. 



GAELIC. -- (Attiu m sativum.) 



Another vegetable used mostly by foreigners. It is of 

 the easiest culture, growing freely on any soil suitable for 

 onions. It is propagated by divisions of. the bulb, called 

 "cloves" or "sets." These are planted in early spring, 

 in rows one foot apart, and from four to six inches 

 between the plants in the rows. The crop matures in 

 August, when it is harvested like the Onion. It is 

 always sold in the dry state. 



HORSERADISH. (Nasturtium Armoracia.) 



This root is an important crop, upwards of five 

 hundred acres of it being grown in the vicinity of New 

 York alone, and for the last twenty years there has 

 been nothing grown from which we have realized more 

 profit as a second crop. It is always grown as a second 

 crop in the following manner : 



In preparing- the roots for market during winter, all 

 the small rootlets are broken off and reserved for plant- 

 ing, leaving nothing but the main root, which is usually 

 from twelve to fifteen inches long, and weighing about 

 three-quarters of a pound. The rootlets, or sets, are cuj: 

 into pieces of from four to six inches in length, from 



