KOHLRABI— LEEK — LETTUCE 483 
Kohlrabi is little known in the United States. It looks like a leafy 
turnip growing above ground. 
If used when small (2 to 3 inches in diameter), and not allowed to 
become hard and tough, it is of superior quality. It should be more 
generally grown. The culture is very simple. A succession of sowings 
should be made from early spring until the middle of summer, in drills 
18 inches to 2 feet apart, thinning the young plants to 6 or 8 inches in 
the rows. It matures as quickly as turnips. One ounce of seed to 
100 feet of drill. 
Leek. — The leek is little grown in this country except by persons 
of foreign extraction. The plant is one of the onion family, and is 
used mostly as flavoring for soups. Well-grown leeks have a very 
agreeable and not very strong onion flavor. 
Leek is of the easiest culture, and is usually grown as a second crop, 
to follow beets, early peas, and other early stuff. The seed should be 
sown in a seed-bed in April or early May and the seedlings planted out 
in the garden in July, in rows 2 feet apart, the plants being 6 inches 
apart in the rows. The plants should be set deep if the neck or lower 
part of the leaves is to be used in a blanched condition. The soil may 
be drawn towards the plants in hoeing, to further the blanching. Being 
very hardy, the plants may be dug in late fall, and stored the same as 
celery, in trenches or in a cool root-cellar. One ounce of seed to 100 
feet of drill. 
Lettuce is the most extensively grown salad vegetable. It is now in 
demand, and is procurable, every month in the year. The winter and 
early spring crops are grown in forcing-houses and coldframes, but a 
supply from the garden may be had from April to November, by the 
use of a cheap frame in which to grow the first and last crops, relying 
on a succession of sowings for the intermediate supply. 
Seed for the first crop may be sown in a coldframe in March, grow- 
ing the crop thick and having many plants which are small and tender; 
or, by thinning out to the distance of 3 inches and allowing the 
plants to make a larger growth, the plants pulled up may be set in the 
open ground for the next crop. 
Sowings should be made in the garden from April to October, at 
