HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING 
VEGETABLES OF UNUSUAL CHARACTER 
r I ''HE vegetables discussed in the following pages might 
well be considered the “delicacies” of the vegetable 
kingdom. The majority of them require a great deal 
of care or patience or both to grow them from seeds to 
maturity. For this reason the home gardener of limited 
experience will find it more advantageous to start with 
plants easily secured from seedsmen, nurseries, or florists. 
With one exception (Leeks) the vegetables in this class 
require a long season to yield the desired crop. In some 
cases several years will elapse before the planter, who 
starts with seeds, may gather the product of his labors. 
On the Pacific Coast all of them thrive to perfection. 
In the warmer sections the hardy kinds are year-around 
vegetables, while those of a more delicate nature attain 
a size and quality such as no other part of the world can 
put into vegetables. This applies particularly to arti- 
chokes and eggplants, the popularity and usefulness of 
which is rather limited in other sections of the country. 
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