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a half-hardy annual, very welcome on account of its orange flowers, 

 freely borne in summer. New varieties are rapidly being developed, 

 different colored and larger, but the original plant is still (1914) 

 the most dependable. The plant is small, about nine inches across, 

 with flowers on stems of about the same height. It is useful for 

 edgings, masses, or for cutting. Sow under glass in April, or out- 

 doors in May, and thin or transplant to about nine inches apart. 

 Keep the faded flowers picked. 



Eggplant : A garden delicacy, a tender plant not usually suc- 

 cessful except with those who are prepared to start it early under 

 glass, and take much pains with it. The earlier, dwarf varieties 

 are best for outdoor culture. Start the plants in March or early 

 April in flats, and if possible transplant at the fourth leaf to pots, 

 repotting as the plants grow. Do not water or feed too much, 

 lest the plants grow soft. Set out in the field when frosts are 

 past, in hills where compost or very well-rotted manure has been 

 mixed with the soil, which should be early and warm. Distances 

 for dwarfs, two feet apart, for standards three feet. It is well 

 to protect in the field by small cold-frames at first. If plants 

 are to be grown wholly in the garden, they should be sown in such 

 frames, especially north of New York City, and thinned to three 

 plants in a hill. Seedsmen offer plants, a dozen in a flat, cheaply 

 in spring. It is well to spray eggplant with a poisoned Bordeaux, 

 against both blight and insects, regularly every ten days. But the 

 flowers should not be sprayed. Against the aphis use soap or kero- 

 sene emulsion. 



Endive (pronounced en'-div) : This plant should be carefully 

 distinguished from the French delicacy Endive (pronounced on'-deev) 

 which is grown from a chicory root, and which is best not attempted 

 except by professionals. Common endive is a salad plant much 

 like lettuce, though usually with a narrow and crinkled leaf. For 

 best results, as it is bitter when green, it should be blanched. It 

 is usually best, therefore, in the fall, when the blanching plants, be- 

 ing hardy, are slower to rot than in summer. 



Sow the seed in rows six inches or more apart in August, in rich, 



