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easy of cultivation, very large, and forming an excellent salad ; 

 indeed, it is on the whole perhaps the best we have. The mode 

 of blanching is very simple : the leaves of the plant are gathered 

 up, and a single straw tied around them. This is only done five 

 days before the Scarole is ready for market. A crop of this 

 nearly ready to blanch in September, was the second crop of the 

 same plant that had been on the ground — the first and best having 

 been gathered a few weeks before. Some of the finer specimens 

 of this second unblanched crop measured twenty and twenty-one 

 inches in diameter on the 7th of September. 



CoKN Salad ob MAche. — This plant is very much used in 

 Paris, and is excellent as a salad. It is peculiarly agreeable 

 when mixed with a sprinkling of Celery. The culture is of the 

 simplest kijid, the seeds being often sown amongst other crops. 

 The Eonde variety is sown about the 15th of August, and at 

 intervals till the end of October. That sown in August comes in 

 for the autumn consumption ; that sown in September for winter 

 use ; and that sown in October is used in spring. During hard 

 frost the crops to be gathered during winter are covered with 

 long litter. Mache Eegence is sown in October, and is sown more 

 thinly than the preceding ; it is considered the best variety. It 

 may also be raised in the spare places between the plants, under 

 cloches, in any open surface between plants in frames, or any cool 

 light garden-structure. 



