CHICORY 
One of the easiest vegetables to grow 
and one of the most rewarding through 
the following winter is the chicory known 
as Witloof, which is to say white leaf. It 
is delicious in salads when used as Endive 
or Coos Lettuce with French Dressing. 
The leaves and stems blanch easily. Sow 
the seed thinly in the row, cover it lightly, 
and firm it down. Restrain the weeds un- 
til the chicory is big enough to smother 
them. Thin the plants to six inches apart 
when three or four inches high, using 
the thinnings either to extend the row or 
to be boiled for greens. A packet of seed 
will easily plant a 25 foot row, which is 
ample for the average family. 
Packet, 10c. 
Witloof: Type grown for greens. 
and stems blanch easily. 
Leaves 
Large Rooted: Roots of this plant used as 
coffee substitute. 
CHIVES 
The famous Schnittlauch . . . highly prized 
for flavor. Best to start seed indoors, 
transplanting to the open garden after 
spring frosts have passed. Sow seed thickly 
so as to form a clump of young plants. 
Plant entire clump as one plant. Packet 
of seed ample for the average family 
needs. Packet, 10c; Y2 ounce, 60c. 
SWISS CHARD 
Chard would be better known and more 
highly appreciated if it were more fre- 
quently on sale, but it is essentially a 
vegetable for the home garden, as it is 
ill-adapted to shipping, in addition to the 
fact that the leaves are gathered singly, 
and not the whole plant. The plants are 
cultivated like beets, except they should 
be thinned to eight to 10 inches apart. 
There are several green varieties, the best 
being Lucullus with crumpled yellowish 
green leaves and Broaditail green chard. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. 
Rhurbarb Chard, a new variety that looks 
like rhubarb. The leaf stocks are a bright 
delicate translucent crimson. This rich 
color extends through the veins into the 
dark green leaves. It has a delicious fla- 
vor and is easily grown in most all types of 
soil and climatic conditions. 
CORN 
Sweet Corn is a backbone crop for every 
home garden. It can successfuly be grown 
in almost any State in the Union. How- 
ever, for best results, it requires a growing 
season of 70 to 80 days with plenty of 
summer heat. In marking off the plot for 
corn, it is well to remember that the 
formation of kernels depends on efficient 
pollination, and, as the pollen is diffused 
by air, a long single row is less likely 
to be well pollinated than several short 
rows in a block. 
Four rows of 25 feet are therefore better 
than one long row of 100 feet, and the 
corn may alternatively be set in hills, or 
groups, of three plants each, with three 
feet between hills. Rows are best, but hills 
make weeding easier. 
Corn needs fertile soil, well drained but 
retentive of moisture, and if an old rotted 
manure or compost pile is available, the 
corn plot is a good place to use it. Or 
a complete fertilizer of such analysis as 
4-12-4 or 6-10-4, on average loam soil, 
may be worked in at the rate of about 
seven pounds to a 100 foot row. This 
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preparation should be done as soon as the 
frost is well out of the ground, a week or 
two before the seed is sown. 
Varieties. For wide adaptability to the 
growing conditions of different areas com- 
bined with yield and quality, Golden Cross 
Bantam is at present the best sweet-corn 
hybrid. It is a strong-growing midseason 
type, resistant to wilt, with large yellow 
ears of excellent eating quality. Some of 
the other popular hybrids that are popu- 
lar with many gardeners are the Mareross, 
Bancross, and Spancross. In most sections, 
these varieties produce earlier corn, but 
the ears are smaller. 
Among the open-pollinated varieties 
Golden Bantam and Improved Golden 
Bantam are still the favorites. 
YELLOW VARIETIES. 
Packet, 10c; 2 pound, 20c; pound, 35c. 
Golden Bantam (78 to 80 days): Ears 7 
to 8 inches long with 8 rows of kernels. 
Excellent for early planting. 
Improved Golden Bantam (80 to 82 days) : 
Ears 6 to 8 inches long with 10 to 14 
rows of kernels to the ear. Light yellow 
color, best midseason variety. 
Golden West (68 to 70 days): Ears 61 
to 7 inches long, 10 to 12 rows of fairly 
broad yellow kernels. 
Early Sunshine (72 to 76 days) : Ears 61 
to 7 inches long with 10 to 12 rows of 
kernels. Good early market variety. 
YELLOW HYBRID. 
Packet, 10c; Y2 pound, 25c; pound, 45c. 
Golden Cross Bantam (83 to 85 days): 
Ears 7 to 8 inches long with 10 to 14 
rows of kernels, medium in width and 
depth. Rich yellow color. 
Bancross (68 to 70 days): Ears 7 to 9 
inches long. 8 to 12 rows of deep yellow 
kernels. Excellent quality for garden or 
market. 
Marcross (76 days). Stalks short but 
sturdy, highly resistant to bacterial wilt. 
Ears long, plump, abruptly tapered at tips; 
10-14 rowed, with light cream-yellow 
medium-broad kernels of good quality. 
Medium size ears 
12 rows of uniform 
Extra early and_ wilt 
Spancross (66 days) : 
6 to 7 inches long. 
yellow kernels. 
resistant. 
WHITE VARIETIES. 
Packet, 10c; 2 pound, 20c; pound, 35c. 
Stowell’s Evergreen (95 to 100 days): 
Ears 8 to 9 inches, 16 rows of deep, white 
kernels. High yielding variety, excellent 
for canning. 
Oregon Evergreen (80 to 85 days): Ears 
7 to 8 inches, uniform medium to large 
ears with 12 to 15 rows. Good freezing 
variety. 
CRESS 
Sometimes known as pepper-grass. A 
quick-germinating, quick-growing plant 
with finely curled bright green leaves, 
daintier in appearance than mustard and 
a little sharper in its pleasantly pungent 
flavor, which is not nearly so robust as 
that of water cress. Sow two or three feet 
at a time in the open row at the first 
working of your garden and repeat weekly. 
Packet, 10c; 2 ounce, 15c¢; ounce, 25c. 

CORN, GOLDEN BANTAM 
CUCUMBERS 
Cucumber vines sprawl over so much ter- 
ritory that they are not admissible to the 
small garden. 
The usual method of growing cucumbers 
is in hills about five feet apart each way, 
planting six seeds to the hill, and the best 
three plants from these left to grow. 
Cucumber is a warm-weather crop and 
the sowing is not done until danger of 
frost is past. Because transplanting is dif- 
ficult, seeds are rarely sown indoors but 
may be started on a piece of upturned 
sod or in bottomless bands. Four or five 
hills should afford enough cucumbers for 
the average family. 
Varieties. Cucumbers are grown either 
for slicing or pickling. For slicing Cubit 
is a prolific white-spined variety, distin- 
guished by unusually uniform dark green 
exterior color, and a long blunt end. An- 
other popular variety is Diamond Long- 
Green, which is outstanding for its large 
size, fruits reaching 101% inches to 11 
inches in length. The third, an old standby 
of the slicing type of cucumber, is Im- 
proved White-Spine, which is one of the 
earlier types of large cucumbers. 
For pickling, Boston Pickling is still the 
most popular variety, although many gar- 
deners have other preferences. 
Vy ounce, 15c; ounce, 25c. Also packets. 


