HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
“BRUSSELS WITLOOF” OR WITLOOF CHICORY 
_ - ( French Endive ) 
r |~''HOUGH known and cultivated in France and Bel- 
gium for years, it is only recently that this delicious 
salad vegetable has found a marked degree of apprecia- 
tion in America. The delicate blanched “sprouts” are 
really the winter product of large chicory roots grown 
during the summer months in any garden. With the 
approach of cold weather these roots are dug up. With 
the tops removed, they are planted again in boxes in 
cellar or other frost-proof places. The resulting shoots 
furnish the salad. 
The plants that make the roots from which witloof is 
forced are really rank-growing weeds. They thrive in 
any soil and need from June to November to reach full 
size. They require no particular attention excepting 
thinning, weeding, and cultivating like any other root 
crop. How any home gardener may grow this delicious, 
French Barbe de Capucin is described on page 206. 
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