CULTURE OF SALSIFY 



Salsify or vegetable oyster is a vegetable which ought 

 to be more grown, and even where it is cultivated should 

 generally be better grown. All soils 

 do not suit it alike ; in fact, to grow 

 it well is not always an easy matter, 

 for so much depends on the ground 

 available. A deep sandy rich soil is 

 best. To manure stiff soil and 

 expect good straight roots will end 

 in failure. If the soil be poor, do 

 not mix dung with it, or the roots 

 will branch in all directions and will 

 become useless. Rather put the 

 dung ten inches deep, so that when 

 the roots reach as far they can be 

 fed by it. I prefer using a slight 

 sprinkling of guano and super-phos- 

 .phate well worked in previous to 

 sowing. Sow on well dug ground 

 made fairly firm as for parsnips, and 

 draw drills about the same depth — 

 that is, one to two inches — the drills 

 being a foot or fifteen inches apart. 

 When the plants are up, thin to 

 five or six inches apart, hoe well, 

 and keep clean. Nothing more will 

 be necessary in order to obtain good 

 roots, straight and without rootlets. 



Only a few weeks ago I was in a garden where was a 

 large bed of salsify. The owner was not satisfied with 



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BUNDLE OF SALSIFY 



