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which is used for salad, the same as lettuce. For 
spring use, sow the seed any time during the month 
of September, and at the approach of cold weather 
cover the bed with a few inches of straw or hay. It 
should be used very early in spring, as it soon runs to 
seed whejL warm weather sets in. Although this plant 
will bear neglect, it will also repay good treatment. 
Seed of winter Spinach and winter Lettuce should 
also be sown during the month of September, and 
the plants should be protected with a covering of 
straw, or similar material, during winter. Put on part 
of the covering when the ground begins to freeze, 
and as the cold increases, add covering till it reaches 
a depth of four or five inches. In regions wdiere 
heavy snowfalls can be depended upon, it may not 
be necessary to protect any of the above-named plants, 
but here and elsewhere, where winters are severe and 
the snowfall light, it is of the utmost importance to 
provide protection, or no success need be expected. 
Hammersmith is the best winter lettuce, and Round 
Leaf and Prickly Winter are two good varieties of 
spinach for fall sowing. 
The beds of kale, corn salad, winter lettuce and 
winter spinach should be arranged side by side, and 
alongside of the parsnips and salsify, so as not to in¬ 
terfere with the plowing of the ground in fall and 
in spring. As some of the parsnips and salsify will 
be left in the ground to be dug at leisure in spring, 
it is best to have all these vegetables side by side, so 
that when the parsnips and salsify* are dug, and the 
* In this locality (Philadelphia), parsnips and salsify will start into 
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