CHAPTER Y 



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 dest results are attained. They are often benefited hy 

 a special application of quickly available fertilizers during 

 growth, particularly of nitrogen in those species 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, hut 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, Yt. Exp. Sta.) : 

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



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