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ENDIVE 
NPHIS highly esteemed salad plant deserves more general 
■-*- cultivation. It is a member (botanically) of the 
chicory family and, as such, is frequently confused with 
the French endive or witloof chicory described and illus- 
trated on pages 82 and 206. However, witloof chicory 
is cultivated for the “forced” sprouts grown from roots 
during the winter, while endive, as described here, is 
the commonly met with salad plant, reaching full size 
within sixty days after seeds are sown. 
Endive does well in any soil, but is distinctly a cool 
season vegetable. It reaches perfection in June from 
seeds sown in April and again in September from seeds 
sown late in July. To prepare it for use, the plants should 
be tied up in conical shape in order to blanch the heart. 
How to grow endive is described in detail on pages 209-210. 
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