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GREEN CURBLED.—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. 
BROAD-LEAVED OR ESCAROLLE.— 
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, 
Green Curled. and is also used for a boiling-green to 
be cooked like spinach. 
GARLIC. 
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of Book. 
Ail (Fr.), Knoblauch (Ger.), Ajo (Sp.), 
Aglio (Ital.) 
CULTURE.— 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. 
The distance between rows depends upon 
the mode of cultivation; if planted in the garden, a foot between the rows is sufficient. 
It is cuitivated like Onions; in the Spring they are taken up and platted together in a 
string by the tops. One of these strings contains from fifty to sixty heads in 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 the row. It requires 
$90 pounds to the acre. 
KOHLRABI OR TURNIP-ROOTED 
CABBAGE. 
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Chou Navet (Fr.), Kohlrabi (Ger.), Col de Nabo 
(Sp.), Cavalo Rapo (ital.) 
CULTURE.—This variety is very popular with 
the European population of our city, and is 
largely cultivated here. It is used for soups, or 
prepared in the same manner as Cauliflower. For 
late Fall and Winter use it should be sown from 
the end of July till the middle of October; fer 
Spring use, during January and February. When 
the young plants are one month old transplant 
them in rows one foot apart, and about the same 
distance in the rows. They also grow finely if 
sown broadcast and thinned out when young, so 
that the plants are not too -rowded, or they may 
be sown in drills, and cultivated the same as 
Ruta Bagas. One ounce to 200 feet of drill; 1% 
pounds per acre. 
EARLY WHITE VIENNA.—tThe finest variety 
of all, and the only kind we sell. It is early, 
forms a smooth bulb, and has few small leaves. 
The so-called large White or Green is not 
Early White Vienna Kohlrabi. desirable. 
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