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The Garden Magazine, June, 1920 
NEW THINGS FOR THE 
VEGETABLE GARDEN 
A S VARIETY is the very spice, not only of 
life, but of the dietary as well, the inquir- 
ing housewife is on the watch for something new 
in the vegetable line. She does not have far to 
seek. Uncle Sam’s Bureau of Plant Industry and 
many acquisitive travelers are constantly bring- 
ing into the country vegetables that are wholly 
unfamiliar to most of us, and which, in many 
cases, are of superlative worth. Pe-tsai, the so- 
called “Celery Cabbage” from China has been 
offered by progressive seedsmen for several years, 
yet it is generally unknown. It deserves the 
widest popularity. Its cultural requirements are 
similar to those of native Cabbage, excepting 
that it must not be planted until well into July. 
Started early, the plant goes to seed and does not 
head. Planted late in summer, it grows into a 
tall urn-shaped vegetable, with a very solid 
heart of wonderful attractiveness and flavor. 
The entire heart blanches to a creamy white, like 
finest celery, and the flavor is extremely delicate. 
Sliced and eaten raw with salt, like celery, the 
plant is delicious. It is good boiled, and — mira- 
bile dictu — it boils without odor! The largest 
we have raised weighed ten pounds. The cab- 
bage butterfly has not yet caught on to 
Pe-tsai. 
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Lovers of Spinach should welcome the Japanese 
Long-standing Spinach, for, according to our 
experiences, it will grow well at any season. This 
past summer we planted both common and Japan- 
ese on the same day, in the same furrow, and the 
former failed entirely — even after replanting — 
whereas the Japanese grew thriftily. 
Then there is a Japanese Mustard which will 
be welcome to those who like greens that are 
more bitter; it, too, has small leaves, but seems to 
thrive on neglect and will become a pest if it 
escapes. None of the Japanese Peas that we 
have raised can be called a success, judged by 
American standards. All were tough, but have 
a nutty quality that is good, however, and dried, 
would probably make excellent soup material. 
The Mexican Chick-pea or Garbanza, good for 
soups, resembles nothing so much as a filbert or 
hazelnut. The plant is utterly unlike our regular 
Pea, as it does not climb, but stands obliquely 
erect. The leaves are tiny and highly ornamen- 
tal. The peas are borne in small pods, and most 
of ours contained but one pea. Perhaps in a 
warmer latitude the yield might be heavier. 
Someone with a head for figures has esti- 
mated that one fifth of what we spend for food 
we pay for color. And many persons set their 
faces like flint against Black Mexican Corn because 
it is black. Though the planted seed is black, 
the ear at the eating stage is almost white. But 
when it reaches its highest sugar content, it 
begins to be flecked with a purplish color, and 
from this condition it becomes a solid blue-black. 
No variety surpasses it in flavor, however. 
Housewives will welcome both the Kikuza 
Squash from Japan and a new American variety 
called the Delicious. Each is a remarkably good 
pie maker, the flesh of each being free from fibrous i 
matter and of very excellent quality. No article 
touching on Squashes would be complete without 
reference to the Cocozelle or Italian Vegetable 
Marrow (referred to on p. 206 of the January 
Garden Magazine). One or two hills, planted 
fairly close together, can be tucked in a corner 
of the garden, and they will yield all the squashes 
needed. They should be eaten when not more ■! 
than six or eight inches long, and are delicious 
fried. All these things I have bought from com- 
mercial seedsmen, so other readers may do the 
same. 
Lewis E. Theiss, Pa. 
