CHAPTER V 

 SALAD CROPS 



Lettuce Parsley 



Endive and chicory Chervil 



Cress Celery 

 Corn-salad 



As a general statement, it may he said that salad plants 

 require cool moist soil, and a quick continuous growth if 

 the iest results are attained. They are often benefited by 

 a special application of quichly available fertilizers during 

 growth, particularly of nitrogen in those specie^t desired 

 chiefly for a rapid growth of leaves. Most of them do not 

 require occupation of the ground the entire year. 



The plants included in this chapter are a somewhat mis- 

 cellaneous company, and it is difficult to state principles 

 that apply to all of them. They are closely connected with 

 the potherb crops. Celery and lettuce have little in com- 

 mon, but the above grouping seems to be as satisfactory as 

 any. Some of the plants are used both as salads and- pot- 

 herbs, as endive ; but they are placed in the group to which 

 their most common use assigns them. A salad is eaten un- 

 cooked; a potherb or "greens" is boiled. Horse-radish 

 is properly a salad plant, or a relish plant. 



On the necessity of giving extra care to the rearing of 

 salad plants, Waugh writes (Bull. 54, Vt. Exp. Sta.) : 

 " Doubtless all vegetables ought to be fresh ; but with salad 



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