102 
A KITCHEN GARDEN 
head is of a silvery white color, very rich and but¬ 
tery in flavor, and stands for some time before run¬ 
ning to seed. 
Other excellent 
varieties of cab¬ 
bage lettuces are 
Philadelphia 
White Cabbage , 
The Hanson and 
The Deaeon , 
while The Tennis 
BURPEE’S SILVER BALL LETTUCE. 
Ball is a great 
favorite with market gardeners for forcing. 
OKRA. 
This plant, like the carrot, is too little grown, as 
its green pods impart a fine flavor and consistency 
to soups and mixed stews; besides being very pal¬ 
atable when stewed and served as is a dish of aspara¬ 
gus ; the pods can also be dried for winter use. The 
seeds should be planted in drills, and if the dwarf 
variety be used, which I think is preferable, as it 
produces an abundance of pods and does not take 
up nearly so much room, the plants may be allowed 
to stand about one and a half feet apart in the row, 
the rows being three feet apart, though a quarter or 
half a row in the kitchen garden, as here described, 
will furnish an ample supply, both for use and dry¬ 
ing. For either purpose, they should be cut before 
the pods attain their full size or they will be hard 
and woody. For drying, the best way is to string 
