VEGETABLES KOHLRABI LEEK. 213 



seventy-five cents per dozen bunches. As it is not in 

 general use, its sale is limited. The varieties mostly 

 cultivated are : 



Early White Vienna, This is greenish-white outside ; 

 flesh white and tender while young. The best condition 

 for use is when the root is from three to four inches in 

 diameter ; if younger it partakes too much of the taste 

 of the Cabbage, 'and when older it is dry and stringy. 

 The best market sort. 



Early Purple Vienna, Almost identical with the 

 preceding, except in color, which is a bluish-purple. 



LEEK, (Allium Porrum.) 



The Leek is another vegetable that is exclusively 

 grown as a second crop. The seed is sown in April in 

 rows one foot apart in ground well prepared, as recom- 

 mended for the Celery seed-bed ; and, like all seed-beds, 

 it is kept scrupulously clear of weeds. The best time of 

 planting is the same as that for all our second crops 

 during July, or as soon as the first or spring crop can 

 be. cleared on . The ground can hardly be too rich for 

 Leeks, and, when time will allow, we always contrive to 

 get in a slight additional coat of manure for this crop ; 

 the spring dressing, large as it always is, hardly being 

 sufficient. The ground being well prepared by plowing 

 and harrowing, lines are marked out by the marker at 

 one foot apart, and the Leeks planted on each line at 

 five or six inches apart ; we do not earth up, but instead 

 plant rather deeply. As it is a plant the foliage of 

 which is but little spreading, great care must be taken 

 that weeds arc never allowed to get ahead, for if they 

 do, they may soon entirely envelop the crop to its total 

 destruction. 



