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ENDIVE. 



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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. It can be sown in drills a foot apart and when the 

 plants are well up, thinned out till about eigrht inches apart. Or it can be sown broadcast 

 thinly and transplanted the same as Lettuce. When the leaves are large enough, say 

 about eight inches long, tie them up for blanching, to make them fit for table. This can 

 only be done in dry weather, otherwise the leaves are apt to rot. For Summer use do 

 not sow before the end of March, as if sown sooner, the plants will run into seed very 

 early. Sow for a succession during the Spring and Summer months. For Winter use 

 .sow in September and October. One ounce to 300 feet of drill; 3 pounds per acre. 



GBBBN CUBLBD. — One of the best 

 salads, especially when blanched; also 

 much used for garnishing; if boiled, 

 makes fine "greens." Successive sow- 

 ings furnish a supply almost the year 

 round. A popular sort with finely cut 

 leaves. Our strain is a long-standing 

 type. It is large, hardy and practically 

 all heart, requiring but little aid in 

 blanching. 



BBOAD-LBAVBD OB BATAVIAN 

 BSCABOLLB. — It has broad, thick 

 leaves with rounded ends, much larger 

 in size and not deeply fringed like the 

 preceding sort. This is used in the 

 ^natural state as an appetizing and most 

 wholesome salad, and is also used for a 

 boiling-green to be cooked like spinach. 



WHITB CUBLBD — A larger size, with 

 longer leaves; is similar to the Green 

 Curled, but the leaves are naturally of a 

 light golden tint and they do not have to 

 be tied up to blanch them for table use. 



WITLOOP-CHICOBY, OB PBENCH.— 



The principal use of Witloof is as a 

 Winter salad, and it is most delicious 

 served with French dressing and eaten 

 like Coss lettuce. The seed should be sown 

 in the open ground not later than June, in 

 drills twelve to eighteen inches apart, 

 Ihinning out the plants so that they will 

 -stand not closer than three inches. The 

 plant forms long parsnip-shaped roots, and 



Green Curled. 



these should be lifted in the Fall, cutting 

 off the leaves and then store in soil in a 

 cool place until wanted for forcing. The 

 roots should be planted in a trench sixteen 

 to eighteen inches deep and placed upright 

 about one and a half to two inches apart, 

 which will allow the neck of the root to 

 come within nine inches of the level of the 

 trench. The treijch should be filled with a 

 light soil, and if a quicker growth is de- 

 sired, this can be accomplished by a mulch 

 of fresh manure about two feet deep. It 

 requires about one month to force the 

 roots, and the heads are cut off with a 

 small portion of the neck of the root 

 attached. 



GARLIC. 



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 Book. 



Ail (Fr.), Knoblauch (Ger.), Ajo (Sp.), 

 Aglio (Ital.) 



CULTUBB. — There is more Garlic 

 grown in Louisiana than in any other 

 State or in all the States together. It 

 is a staple product of the lower par- 

 ishes, and is raised for home consump- 

 tion and shipping. It is used for flavor- 

 ing stews, roasts and various other 

 dishes. People from the south of 

 Europe use much more than the inhabi- 

 tants of the United States. It should be 

 planted in October and November, in 

 drills two to three feet apart, about 6 

 inches in the drills and 1 inch deep. Garlic. 



The distance between rows depends upon „ , , , ^v. ■ «?^^^„<. 



the mode of cultivation; if planted in the garden, a foot between the rows is sufficient. 

 It is cultivated like Onions; in the Spring they are taken up and planted together ma 

 string by the tops. One of these strings contains from fifty to sixty heads m double 

 rows; they are then stored or rather hung up in a dry, airy place, and will keep from 

 six to eight months. Plant in 3-foot rows, planted 3 inches apart in tne row. It requires 

 90 pounds to the acre. 



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