GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



RHUBARB OR PIE PLANT ROOTS. 



Rhubarb is not known to the great majority of 

 the people of the cotton belt, but in Tennessee, 

 Kentucky, Missouri and the Central States a patch 

 of rhubarb plants is looked on almost as a house- 

 hold necessity. It is about the earliest usable plant 

 in the Spring- for pie making- and stewing. It also 

 has g-reat medicinal qualities, extract of rhubarb 

 heing- larg^ely used to assist digestion. 



CUI^TTJBX:. — We do not recommend planting- 

 Rhubarb in Florida and Gulf Coast sections, but in 

 the Central South where moist, partly shaded loca- 

 tions can be had Rhubarb will g-row luxuriantly. It 

 is a plant that is a rank feeder and grower, and as 

 such should be fertilized heavily with well rotted 

 stable manure. Plant out the roots during early 

 Spring months. 



Field Grown Roots — By mail postpaid: 20 cents 

 each; 3 for 50 cents; $1.75 per dozen. 



Rhubarb or Pie Plant. 



ROQUETTE OR ROCKET SALAD. 



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Roquette (Fr.) 



CUZiTUBZ:. — A low growing hardy annual from Southern Europe; the leaves 

 resemble those of radish and turnip; much used by the French as a Spring and Autumn 

 salad and pot-herb. The flavor of the young, tender leaves, which are the parts used, 

 bears a strong resemblance to that of horse-radish. The first sowing may be made in 

 early Spring, the seed being dropped thinly in shallow drills, a foot apart,' with succes- 

 sional plantings each second and third week through the season. The soil must be rich 

 and well supplied with moisture, else the leaves will probably be tough and acrid. Inter- 

 culture is the same as for spinach, lettuce and similar crops. Frequent watering and 

 tillage in hot. dry weather to insure rapid, vigorous growth should result in succulent, 

 mild-flavored leaves. In Summer the plants run rapidly to seed: in Spring and Autumn 

 they will produce abundantly after being cut. The pale citron-yellow flowers emit a 

 perfume resembling that of orange blossoms. 



Sano-TTich Island 

 Mammoth. 



SALSIFY OR OYSTER PLANT. 



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Salsifis TFr.), Haferwurzel CGer.), Ostra Vegetal (Sp.), 

 Sassefrica (Ital.j 



CULTUBi:. — A vegetable which ought to be more cultivated 

 than it is. It is prepared in different ways, and partakes of 

 the flavor of oysters. It should be sown in the Fall of the 

 year, not later than November. The ground ought to be 

 manured the Spring previous, deeply spaded and well pul- 

 verized. Sow in drills, about 10 inches apart, and thin out to 

 three or four inches in the rows. One ounce to 60 feet of 

 drill; 8 pounds to the acre. 



SAN-DWICH ISLAND.— (Mammoth). This is a sort that 

 erows much quicker than the old varieties. It attains a 

 large size; can be called with right mammoth. It is superior 

 to the old kinds and has come into general cultivation. 



SHALLOTS. 



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Eshallotte (Fr.), Schallotten (Ger.) 



CULTUBB. — A small-sized Onion which grows in clumps. 

 It is generally grown in the South, and used in its green 

 state for soups, stews, etc. There are three varieties, the red. 

 the yellow and the white; the latter variety is the most 

 popular. They grow and multiply very fast, and can be 

 divided during Winter and set out again. Late in the Spring, 

 when the tops become drj-. tliey have to be taken up. 

 thoroughly dried, and stored in a dry. airy place. It requires 

 two barrels of Shallots to plant an acre, and they should be 

 planted in three-foot rows, nine inches in the row. Tliey 

 should be set out from August till March. 



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