AND VEGETABLE-GARDEN MANUAL. 135 
SCORZONERA, OR BLACK SALSIFY. 
The roots of this vegetable are very palatable and nourishing, 
and is principally used as an ingredient in soup. Some prefer it 
to the common Oyster-plant. It is sometimes eaten like Carrots. 
In which case, they should be deprived of their rind and immersed 
in cold water for half an hour, or they will be bitter. They are 
cultivated in the same manner as the preceding. 
SCURVY GRASS. , 
Used as a small salad throughout the winter and spring. Sow 
broadcast, or in shallow drills, early in autumn. Protect through 
the winter by covering lightly with straw or the branches of ever- 
greens. 
SEA-KALE. 
The soil most suitable to this plant is that which has a consid- 
erable proportion of sand in its formation. In preparing the 
ground for the seed, which should be sown as early in the spring 
as the ground can be prepared, or the middle of autumn, dig it 
deeply, and sow in drills an inch and a half deep, and sixteen 
inches apart, The plants should be thinned out to the distance 
of six or eight inches from each other in the rows, and kept clear 
of weeds by frequent hoeings. When the plants are a year old, 
every third row may be taken up, and also every other plant in 
each row, leaving them eighteen inches apart, which may be 
transplanted into good ground prepared as directed for Aspara- 
gus. Plant two rows in each bed, about eighteen inches apart. 
The better mode is to make two drills three inches deep, and in- 
sert' the plants about sixteen inches apart. When these drills are 
filled, the crowns of the plants will be covered nearly two inches, 
