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RHUBARB 
CuLtture. Rhubarb succeeds best in deep soil. The richer its con- 
dition and the deeper it is stirred the better. Sow in drills an inch deep 
and thin out the plants to six inches apart. In the Fall transplant the 
young plants into very highly manured and deeply stirred soil, setting 
them 4 to 6 feet apart each way and give a dressing of coarse manure 
every spring. The stalks should not be plucked until the second year and 
the plant never allowed to exhaust itself by running to seed. 
VICTORIA 
Stalks large, rich red in color, very thick and tender. The best variety. 
SALSIFY OR VEGETABLE OYSTER 
CuLtureE. Salsify succeeds best in a ligkt, well enriched soil, which 
should be stirred to a good depth. Coarse and fresh manure should be 
avoided as it will surely cause the roots to grow uneven and _ ill-shaped. 
Sow early and quite deep, giving the general culture recommended for 
parsnips. The roots are perfectly hardy and may remain out all winter. 
Store a quantity for winter use in a pit or cellar in damp earth or sand. 
MAMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND 
Roots 7 to 8 inches long, 1 to 1% inches thick; skin almost white; flesh 
mild and delicately flavored. 
SORREL 
CuLTURE. Sow in spring in drills 18 inches apart, in a rich soil, and 
keep the flower stems cut off as they appear. Remains in the ground, 
needs to be taken up and divided only once in 4 or 5 years. To be cut 
and cooked precisely like spinach. Also used for soups. Inasmuch as the 
hot sun tends to increase its acidity a Northern exposure is preferable. 
LARGE LEAVED FRENCH 
Standard home garden and market sort, producing large, thick, bright 
green arrow-shaped leaves of mildly acid flavor. 
SPINACH 
CuLture. As early as the soil can be worked, sow it one-half inch 
deep in fourteen-inch rows, using one ounce of seed to one hundred feet, 
and in the second week will appear a tiny plant with two very narrow 
leaves that do not resemble the true leaves that follow. Cutting should 
begin forty-five days from sowing. It is impossible to put spinach on too 
rich soil, and nitrate of soda is used on it with profit. 
GIANT NOBEL THICK LEAF 42 Days 
Plants large, vigorous and slow to run to seed. Very heavy yielder. 
Leaves medium green, thick and tender. The best thick leaved variety. 
HEAVY PACK 45 Days 
Plants are large and spreading; leading canning variety because of heavy 
yield. Leaves very large, broad, arrow shaped with rounded tip, thickest 
of all large leaved varieties, dark green, partially crumpled. . 
KING OF DENMARK 44 
The best long season spinach, remaining two weeks longer than others 
before bolting to seed. Plant vigorous and spreading; leaves large, round- 
ed, crumpled and blistered, deep green in color. 
NEW ZEALAND 
This branching plant—a spinach in its use but not in its growth — 
frost-kills but grows luxuriantly in the summer heat. Plant these large 
seeds three in a hill, 3 x 2 feet apart or start the plant under glass and 
transplant. 
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