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wonderfully. Burpee’s Ruby King and Golden Dawn 
are two superb new varieties. 
Gumbo, or Okra, is grown for its seed pods, which 
are used in soups and stews. Plant the seed eighteen 
inches apart, when the ground is warm, in spring, 
and use the pods while young and tender. 
Sow Leek seed very early, in a seed bed, in a shel¬ 
tered place, if possible. When plants are about six 
inches long, transplant them to trenches six inches 
deep, with very rich soil at the bottom. Fill up the 
trenches as the plants grow, and later draw soil up 
to them. As a result, you will have fine, large leeks, 
blanched a foot long, which may be kept all winter 
if dug up with the roots on, and stored in moist sand 
in the cellar. Aside from being valuable for soups 
and salads, blanched leek makes an excellent dish 
when sliced and cooked like green peas. This fact 
does not seem to be generally known, as well-grown 
leek is so seldom seen in kitchen gardens.* 
We will now go back again to the ground adjoin¬ 
ing the parsnips and salsify. The early vegetables 
will mature and be harvested one after the other, so 
that there will be enough vacant ground in time for— 
CELERY, ENDIVE, TURNIPS, WINTER RADISHES, KALE, 
CORN SALAD, WINTER LETTUCE AND WINTER 
SPINACH. 
Sow Celery seed in a hotbed or cold frame. When 
a few inches high, plant five inches apart, in a bed, in 
* Leek is both wholesome and palatable. We heartily endorse the words 
of recommendation, and trust that many readers will include it in their 
gardens. Kohl Rabi is another vegetable but little known in America, and 
which Miss Moll is also fully warranted in recommending.— Ed. 
