V. FENNEL, GARLICS. 



use as directed for the autumn. Endive may be trans- 

 planted, but it does not transplant so well as lettuce, and 

 the plants are never so fine as those that remain on the 

 spot where they were sowed. If transplanted, they should 

 be put at about twelve inches apart, hoed nicely between 

 and kept clear from weeds. Endive, if sowed early in 

 the spring, ripens its seed that same summer j but the 

 best way is to save two or three good plants that have 

 stood the winter, and let them go to seed. They will 

 produce a great abundance, which, if carefully preserved, 

 will keep good four or five years, at the least. I have 

 mentioned the middle of July as the time of sowing for 

 the main crop j but some may be sowed later, as it does 

 not require any great deal of room. 



148. FENNEL is a perennial herb, propagated from 

 seed or from offsets, sowed in the spring, or the offsets 

 planted in the fall. The plants should stand about a foot 

 asunder. The leaves are used in salads, or for the making 

 a part of the sauce for fish. In winter, the seeds are 

 bruised, to put into fish-sauce, and they give it the same 

 flavour as the leaves of the plant. It is a very hardy 

 thing j two yards square in the herb-bed will be enough for 

 any family ; and, once in the ground, it will stand for an age. 



149. GARLICK may be propagated from the seed 5 but 

 is usually propagated from offsets. It is a bulb which in- 

 creases after the manner of the hyacinth and the tulip : 

 the offsets are taken off in the spring and planted in rows 

 at a foot apart, being merely pressed into the ground with 

 the finger and thumb and covered over with a little earth* 

 The ground ought to be kept perfectly clean during the 



