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CHERVIL. 
Cerfeuil (Fr.), Kerbelkraut (Ger.). 
An aromatic plant used a good deal for seasoning, especially in 
oyster soup, and is often cut between Lettuce when served as a salad. 
In the North this vegetable is very little known, but in this section 
there is hardly a garden where it is not found. Sow broad-cast during 
fall for winter and spring, and in January and February for summer 
use. 
COLLARDS. 
A kind of cabbage which does not head, but the leaves are used 
the same as other cabbage. Not so popular as in former years, and 
very little planted. 
CORN SALAD. 
Mache, Doucet fFr.), Acker Salat (Ger.), Valeriana (Sp.). 
Broad-leaved Corn Salad is the variety generally cultivated. It is 
used as a salad during the winter and early spring months. Should 
be sown broad-cast during fall and winter, or in drills nine inches 
apart. 
CORN.— Indian. 
Mats (Fr.), Welsciikorn (Ger.), Maiz (Sp.). 
Extra Early Dwarf Sugar. 
Adam’s Extra Early. 
Early Sugar or Sweet. 
Stowel’s Evergreen Sugar. 
Golden Dent Gourd Seed. 
Early Yellow Canada. 
Large White Flint. 
Blunt’s Prolific Field. (New.) 
Improved Leaming. 
Plant in hills about three feet apart, drop four to live seeds and 
thin out to two or three. Where the ground is strong the Adam’s Ex¬ 
tra Early and Crosby’s Sugar can be planted in hills two and a half 
feet apart, as these two varieties are more dwarfish than the other 
varieties. Plant for a succession from February till June. 
Extra tally or Crosby’s Dwarf Sugar. This is a very early 
variety and of excellent quality. Ears small, but very tender. It is 
not so extensively planted as it deserves to be. 
Adam’s Extra Early, the most popular variety with market 
gardeners for first planting. It has no tine table qualities, but as it 
grows to a good size, and is matured in about forty days from time of 
planting, it meets with ready sale in the market, and for these reasons 
gardeners prefer it. » 
Early Sugar or IVew England. A long eight-rowed variety, 
which succeeds the Extra Early kinds. Desirable variety. 
Stowel’s Evergreen Sugar. This is the best of all Sugar Corn. 
It is not an early Corn, but the ears are of large size, and are well 
filled. It remains green longer than any other variety, and is quite 
productive. The cultivation of this excellent cereal, as well as all 
other Sugar Corn, is much neglected, yet why people will plant com¬ 
mon field-corn for table use, considering size instead of quality, I can¬ 
not understand. 
