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ENDIVE. 
CULTURE.—A salad plant which is very popular and much cultivated for the market. 
Principally for Summer use. It can be sown in drills a foot apart and when the plants 
are well up, thinned out tili about eight inches apart. Or it can be sown broadcast thinly 
and transplanted the same as Lettuce. When the leaves are large enough, say about 
eight inches long, tie them up for blanching, to make them fit for table... This can only 
be done in dry weather, otherwise the leaves are apt to rot. For Summer use do not sow 
before the end of March, as if sown sooner, the plants will run into seed very early. 
Sow for a succession during the Spring and Summer months. For Winter use sow in 
September and October. One ounce to 300 feet of drill; 8 pounds per acre. 
sort. This is used in the natural state as 
an appetizing and most wholesome salad. 
and is also used for a boiling green to be 
cooked like spinach. Packet, 10c.; oz., 15¢e.; 
% lb., 40c.; 1b., $1.25, postpaid. 



Green Curled. 
GREEN CURLED.—One of the best | 
salads, especially when blanched; also : 
much used for garnishing; if boiled, makes 
fine “greens.” Successive sowings furnish | + 
a supply almost the year round. A popular ee. 
sort with finely cut leaves. Packet, 10Cc.; 
0z., 20c.; % lb., 50c.;.1b., $1.50, postpaid. 
ITALIAN RED BIBBED ENDIVE.—The 
most popular variety, producing beauti- 
: is s Ss I 
fully curled, dark green leaves; crisp, Tt is a_ staple product of Southern 
= - Louisiana, and is raised for home consump- 
tender and pinches cream white. Packet, | tion and shipping. It is used for fasovine 
10¢.; OZ, 15¢.; 74 Ib., 40c.; Ib., $1.25, post- | <tews, roasts and various other dishes. 
paid. It should be planted in October and 
BROAD-LEALVED OR BATAVIAN November, in drills two or three feet 
ESCAROLLE.—It has broad, thick leaves | apart, about 6 inches in the drills and 1 
with rounded ends, much larger in size inch deep. Price, 4% lb., 15c.; Ib., 50c., post- 
and not deeply fringed like the preceding paid. 
KOHLRABI. 
CULTUBE.—The edible part is the turnip- 
shaped bulb formed above ground. It is tender 
and excellent when used before fully grown, 
combining somewhat the flavors of cabbage 
and turnip. Seed should be sown in light, 
rich soil as early in spring as possible in 
rows one and one-half feet apart and when 
well established thin six inches apart in the 
row. Planted in Spring at intervals of ten 
days will give a succession until hot weather, 
when they fail to grow well. Plantings may 
be made the latter part of July for Fall use. 
1% lbs. to the acre. 
EARLY WHITE VIENNA.—Packet, 10c.; 
oz., 30c.; 44 lb., 90c.; 1b,, $3.00, postpaid. 

LEEK. 

London Flag 
Leek. 
CULTURE.—A species of Onion highly esteemed for flavoring stews and soups: is 
also eaten boiled or fried. Should be sown broadcast and transplanted when about six 
to eight inches high into rows a foot apart, and six inches apart in rows. Should be 
planted at least four inches deep. They require to be well cultivated in order to secure 
large roots. Sow in October for Winter and Spring use, and January and February for 
Summer, One ounce to 250 feet of drill; 4 pounds per acre. 
LARGE LONDON FLAG.—Is the kind most generally grown. Packet, 10c.; oz., 25c.; 
¥% 1b., 60c.; 1b., $1.75, postpaid. 
LARGE ROUEN.—A French variety which does well in our climate and seems to be 
practically adapted to our soil, It grows shorter than London Flag and much stouter. 
As a market variety it cannot be excelled. Packet, 10c.; oz., 25c.; 1% lb., 75c.; 1b., $2.50, 
postpaid. 
