HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
SALSIFY, OR OYSTER PLANT 
S OW the long, slim, woody-looking seeds as soon 
as the ground can be worked, in rows, eighteen inches 
to two feet apart. Drop about two seeds to every inch 
and cover them a half to three-quarters of an inch deep. 
The average packet, handled in this manner, will sow 
twenty feet of row, one ounce for one hundred feet. 
The seedlings, which look like strong sprouts of grass, 
will appear in about ten days. As soon as they become 
four inches tall they should be thinned out to stand four 
inches apart in the row. Being a deep rooting vegetable 
salsify should be hoed frequently and to good depth. 
Because salsify requires all season to grow to good size, 
repeated sowings are not practical. Sow not later than 
June ist. Roots from later sowings develop more rapidly 
than those from earlier ones, but do not keep so well. 
Mammoth Sandwich Island as shown herewith is the 
stand-by in all sections. It is dug in the fall and stored 
like carrots, or left outdoors and protected like parsnips. 
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