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in a warm dry place. Care should be exercised in the hand- 

 ling so that no bruised potatoes Will be put in storage. 



Swiss Chgrd is a form of beet, but the root is small and 

 the top is large and edible (Fig. 114). The little green 

 wrinkled leaves have given 'it the name " Silver Beet." They 

 are cooked as greens the same as spinach. The thickened mid- 



PiG. 114. — Swiss chard with long wliite leaf-stems to be stewed and served with 

 cream. (Cornell Reading Circle Leaflet.) 



ribs are sometimes served with cream, like asparagus. The 

 seed is drilled thinly in rows eighteen inches apart and the 

 largest plants are first harvested, leaving the crop with the 

 plants six or eight inches apart in the row. If the main crop 

 is cut or pulled without injuring the crowns of the plants 

 they will continue to produce new foliage for succession crop- 

 ping. Chard may be transplanted as in the case of spinach. 

 The crop is rather hardy and will stand some Into spring frost. 



