CHICORY 
Chicory is a plant largely used for salad purposes, but 
it is also valuable as a vegetable when well served, as it 
possesses properties that are rare in other vegetables. 
Upon its use as a salad I do not intend to dwell as 
this will be described elsewhere. For vegetable uses 
it needs much the same culture, but a better plant is 
required to secure fine growth. 
Those persons who have an opportunity of seeing our 
large markets in 
towns may have ob- 
served neat bundles 
or baskets of Chi- 
cory imported from 
the continent, the 
blanched growths 
being somewhat 
like Seakale, and 
that is the edible 
portion used as a 
vegetable. The 
green leaves not 
forced may also be used like Spinach, and they produce 
so freely in the spring, when ordinary Spinach is scarce, 
that they may be termed a good substitute. To get 
forced material the seeds are sown in April or May 
in deeply dug land, in rows 15 to 18 inches apart and 
the seedlings thinned to 9 inches in the row. In the 
late autumn the roots are lifted as required and placed 
in a dark place or mushroom house, and the growths 
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BROAD-LEAVED CHICORY 
{One-eighth natural size) 
