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THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 



Improved Giant Erect Dandelion. 



Large Green Montmagny Dandelion. — This, now largely 

 grown in the vicinity of Paris, is a more vigorous form of the 



Common Dandelion. It 

 blanches well. 



Thick-leaved, or 

 Cabbaging, Dandelion. — 

 A very distinct variety, 

 obtained by cultivation, and 

 surpassing the wild plant 

 not so much in the size as 

 in the very great number 

 of its leaves, which form a 

 regular tuft or clump, instead 

 of a plain rosette. It yields 

 a very abundant crop with- 

 out taking up much ground, 

 and blanches very easily 

 and, indeed, almost naturally. 

 It appears to us to be the 

 best variety that has been 

 obtained up to the present. 

 Improved Very Early Dandelion. — Increasing the breadth 

 of the leaves of Dandelions has resulted in fewer leaves being 

 produced. The variety 

 known as the Improved 

 Broad-leaved Dandelion, 

 forms a simple rosette of 

 very large and broad 

 leaves, sometimes 20 in. 

 across. Its productiveness 

 not being in proportion 

 to the amount of space 

 it occupies, it has been 

 almost completely super- 

 seded by a sub-variety 

 called the Improved Very 

 Early Dandelion, in which 

 less productiveness is com- 

 pensated for by greater 

 earliness. Its leaves are 

 large, and are formed as 

 soon as the winter is over. 

 They make a very delicate 

 salad. 



Improved Giant Erect Dandelion. — A distinct variety which, 

 instead of forming into a rosette, like other Dandelions, grows 



Moss-leaved Dandelion. 



