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Large Purple cr New Orleans Market. 
This is the kind mainly grown here, is 
large, oval in shape and of a:dark purple 
color and very productive. Southern 
grown seed of this, aS a gcod many 
tropical or sub-tropical vegetables, is pre- : 
ferable to Northern seed, as it will 
germ nate more readily, and the plant 
will last longer during the hot season. It 
is the be:t variety for shipping, superior 
to the Northern raised kinds. It carries 
better. The cut is made. from three 
Specimens and represents the true form. 
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Early Dwarf Oval. 
Early Dwarf Oval. This variety is 
very early and productive; the fruit is 
not 30 large as the New Orleans Market, 
but equal in flavor. 
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New York Market. 
The New York Market. Is rounder in 
shape than the New Orleans; has Spines 
con leaves and stems. 
Early. White Pearl. The plant is 
a large, vigorous grower and compara- 
tively free from thorns. Fruit pure 
creamy white, with slight shading of a 
very light green near the stem; beauti- 
ful in shape, resembling somewhat the 
purple variety. In eating quality it is 
| delicious, fine grain and well flavored. 
Steckler’s New: High Bush. Similar to 
| the New York Improved, except that it 
| grows with a longer stem and the fruit 
is borne on its stem rather than out on 
the branches, as with other varieties. 
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Chicoree (Fr.), Endivien (Ger.), Endibia (Sp.), Indivia (Ital.) 
CULTURE.—A salad plant which is very popular and much cultivated for the 
market, principally for summer use. 
when the plants are well up, thinned out till about eight inches apart. 
be-sown broadcast thinly and transplanted the same as Lettuce. 
It can be sown in drills a foot apart, and 
Or it can 
When the leaves 
are large enough, say about eight inches long, tie them up for blanching, to make 
them fit for table. 
apt to rot. for summer use do not sow 
before the end of March, as if sown 
sooner, the plants w_il run into seed very 
early. Sow for a succession during the 
spring and summer months. 
use sow in September and October. 
Green Curled. The most popular varie- 
ty, producing beautifully curled dark 
green leaves, crisp, tender, and blanches 
cream white. 
Broad-Leaved or Escarolle. 
fine salad when well grown and blanched, 
especially for summer. 
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This can only be done in dry weather, otherwise the leaves are 
For winter && 
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Green Curled. 
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