KOHLRABI—LEEK. 57 
the fall, and left to remain in the open over winter, but 
in our northern sections, while plants will often winter 
well outdoors, the winters usually are too severe, and 
after the manner given for storing cabbage, plants are 
there taken up in autumn and stored in trenches or ina 
cool cellar. In early spring they are set out in rows four 
feet apart, two feet in the row. Those plants which 
were transplanted in the preceding autumn and left in 
the field over winter, are not disturbed in spring. 
Take care of the crop, harvest, clean, etc., after the 
manner as given for borecole and cabbage, to which 
refer. 
Market.—Kohlrabi seed for the kitchen and market 
garden is sold in moderate quantities by all American 
dealers, while in Europe the vegetable is grown exten- 
sively for cattle-feeding, being considered there, for that 
purpose, equal, if not superior, to the best ruta baga. 
At present, practically all the seed used by the 
American trade is imported from Europe, but there is 
no necessity for any importation, as it could all be 
grown here. ‘Yield of seed and prices range about the 
same as for cabbage. 
LEEK. 
This vegetable is a hardy member of the onion fam- 
ily. Seed is sown first in seed bed in spring and later 
transplanted into rows 15 inches apart, 6 inches be- 
tween the plants; or seed may be sown in drills same 
distance apart, thinning plants afterwards to 6 inches 
apart without transplanting. It stands winter without 
protection, and seed is produced in the second year. 
Treatment, harvesting and cleaning are very similar to 
onion, and attention is, therefore, directed for particu- 
lars for such matters as they will be found given here- 
