CHAPTER XIV 



SALAD CROPS 



Lettuce, Celery, 



Endive, Celeriac. 



Chicory, 



Cress, 



Corn Salad, 



Parsley, 



As a general statement, it may he said that salad 

 plants require cool moist soil, and a quicJc continuous 

 growth if the best results are attained. They are often 

 henefited by a special apjjlication of qiiichly available fer- 

 tilizers during grotvth, particularly of nitrogen in those 

 species tvhich are desired chiefly for a quick grotvth of 

 leaves. The plants included in this chapter are a some- 

 what heterogeneous company, and it is difficult to state 

 principles that apply to all of them. They are closely 

 connected with the pot-herb crops. Celery and lettuce 

 have little in common, but 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 uncooked ; a pot - herb or greens " 

 is boiled. Horse-radish is properly a salad plant. 



On the necessity of giving extra care to the rearing 

 of salad plants, Waugh writes* as follows: "Doubtless 



*Bull. 54, Vt. Exp. Sta. ^' 



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