CONTENTS-INDEX 



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Tillage 139 



Mustard 137 



Where grown 137 



Soil requirements , 138 



Purslane 140 



Spinach 134 



Forced spinach 136 



How sown 137 



How to sow 135 



New Zealand spinach 136 



Where and when grown. 134 



Chapter XVIII.— Salad Crops 141-160 



What they are 141 



What they need 141 



Celeriac 159 



How eaten 159 



How to grow 159 



Soil and tillage 159 



Transplanting 159 



Celery 150 



Blanching 164, 155, 156 



Care in tilling 153, 154 



Diseases 158 



Early and late crop 153 



Fertilizing 153 



How to sow 151 



Loss in sprouting 152 



Marketing 157 



Seed-bed crop 150 



Soil requirements 150 



Storing 157 



Thinning 152 



Transplanting 152 



Varieties 158 



Where it grows best 150, 151 



Chicory 145 



How to grow 145 



Salad plant. 145 



Use of chicory roots 146 



Corn Salad 148 



Cool-season crop 148 



How and where to plant. 148 



Yield 149 



Cress 146 



How and where to grow 146, 147 



How to plant 148 



Varieties 146 



