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SALAD PLANTS 
T\l THOSE plants of which we eat the prepared 
green leaves in the raw stage we generally think 
as salad plants. As a class, few are easier to grow. 
Yet good salads are met with all too rarely on the home 
table, because most people depend on the market supply. 
Since freshness and crispness of the plants are the 
prime requisites of good salads, the best way to get them is 
to grow them yourself. Fortunately, a good supply 
may be grown in comparatively small space. Since nearly 
all salad plants described in the following pages are 
partial to shade, they may be grown quite successfully 
in the average city garden where the sun shines but little. 
None of the salad plants are particular as to soil. But 
as their quality depends on how quickly they may be 
grown large enough for use, the spot in which they are 
grown should be well enriched with plenty of rotted 
manure. Frequent and thorough cultivation will, to a 
certain extent, offset lack of fertility. 
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