92 SALAD 
Everyone should enjoy the pleasure of a salad 
several days a week, at all events during the summer 
season, with but trifling expense. It is a wholcvime 
addition to more substantial diet, rendering it grateful 
to the palate, and it is a pity that it is so rarely 
brought to table in an average household. We will 
enumerate a few of the almost unknown salad plants, 
with some notes on their eultivation. 
American Land Cress may be sown at any 
time out of doors. It is a useful variety tasting some- 
thing like water eress. 
Trice 6d. per packet. 
Beet. — See Jiages iito 13. 
Celeriac, Carters’ Improved (or 
turnip-rooted Celeiy).— Pure white root, refined 
flavour. It is becoming popular in this country, 
owing to the tnore frequent contact nowadays 
of the English people with continental dishes. Seeds 
should be sown in pans in March, and the jtlants set 
out in shallow trenches to mature. 
Price 6d. per packet. 
Chervil is used for seasoning soups and mixing 
in salads. It is grown from seed sown in spring and 
in summer for successional crops. The soil should be 
rich and light, and the bed 4J feet wide, with an alley 
on each side. Sow seed in shallow' drills across the 
bed, 9 inches apart, and rake over the surface. 
When the leaves have grown an inch or two, cut off 
for use as required. 
Price 6d. per packet. 
Chicory. — The majority of people know Chicory 
as an adulterant of Coffee, but few are aware of the 
part it plays in the salad bowl, to which it adds a 
pleasing flavour. Chicory is so easily grown and so 
useful, that it should receive more attention from 
amateurs who desire to grow salads. This plant is 
also sown in late spring in the open ground, and 
thinned out to about a foot apart to grow through the 
summer, well watered in dry weather. With thechange 
to a colder season, the leaves decay and nearly all drop 
off. The roots are then lifted; and a few at a time 
placed in boxes of rich sandy soil, leaving crown 
well above the surface. After a good watering these 
boxes are stood in a perfectly dark place, and in a few 
weeks, according to the heat, some nicely blanched 
leaves will be fit to gather. More roots, kept in a cool 
])lace until wanted for bringing along in heat, may 
be similarly treated. 
Price 6d. per packet. 
Whitloef is a distinct variety of Chicory, largely 
grown in the suburbs of Brussels, and chiefly noted 
for the quality of its leaves. 
Price 6d. per packet. 
Chives isahardy perennial found in rocky pastures. 
It is grown in gardens for its leaves, as a substitute for 
early onions. Propagate by dividing the roots into 
clumps in spring and autumn and plant from 8 to 12 
inches apart. In order that the leaves be tender and 
succulent they should be often cut. 
Plants price 6d. each. 
Clary, used for flavouring soups. 
Price fid. per packet. 
Corn Salad or Lambs’ Lettuce.— 
This is a hardy annual, and in great demand as a salad 
plant on the Continent. In France it is preferred, 
admired, and relished in winter and spring instead of 
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PLANTS. 
Lettuce, but it is not nearly so highly appreciated in 
Britain as it deserves. But when ICndivc is scarce. 
Corn Salad is of great service, and for early u.se should 
be sown in frames or in boxes and placed in slight 
heat. For summer use it may go on the border or in 
lines in a sunny spot, amongst the ordinary low- 
growing vegetables. 
Price fid. per packet. 
Cress. — See page 36. 
Cucumber.— pages 37 to 39. 
Da.ndelion. — The common Dandelion is a 
useful salad plant, especially when Endive and 
Lellucc are scarce in winter. The roots are grown 
in a similar manner to Chicory, and large quantities 
of the blanched leaves are sold in the markets for 
this esculent. 
Price fid. per packet. 
Endive. — See pages 40 and e,\. 
Lettuce.— pages 46 to 50. 
Mustard.— page 56. 
Nasturtium, of which the green seeds make 
a delightful salad. This plant is both a dwarf and a 
climber, and very ornamental as well as useful. The 
flowers are often used in salads, occasionally for 
decorating, and the leaves and young green plants are 
frequently pickled. 
I’rice 3d- and fid. per packet. 
Purslain is a succulent plant and raised from 
seed, which may be sown in light garden soil in 
March on a warm sheltered border in a bed, and 
attended to in the same way as for Chervil. 
Price fid. per packet. 
Radish. — See pages 88 to 91. 
Rsimpion. — A plant producing a spindle-shaped 
root of light colour and of agreeable flavour. It 
may be raised from seed if sown in a bed in an open 
warm aspect, and in soil of a rich compost, of a light 
open texture. Water well in dry weather. Should 
the season prove mild, the plants will be ready for 
use in November. 
Price fid. per packet. 
Shallots. — The Shallot is much in favour as a 
relish for soups and for pickling. Offsets are often 
planted in the autumn, but the main crop is usually 
got in early in the year. The bulbs may be planted 
at any suitable time during this period, 12 inches 
between each row, and 6 inches from set to set. 
The bulbs should be firmly pressed in just beneath 
the surface of the soil, and here they remain. As the 
growth matures in spring, gently draw away the soil 
round the bulbs when they have become established, 
and if they look sickly, apply soot to the surface soil 
for maggots, and use the hoe for weeds. Lift, dry, 
and store crop as soon as ready, probably the end of 
June. For exhibition, twenty-five cloves or bulbs 
should be placed on a large plate, and see that they 
are firm, of medium size, ripe, of good colour, and 
nice small necks. There are two types, the Mammoth 
and the ordinary Shallot. 
For price of bulbs, see page 246. 
Tomato. — See pages 94 to 97. 
Watercress. — Watercress may be successfully 
grown from seed if sown in a shaded border and kept 
well watered when started. 
Price fid. per packet. 
