. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Cultural Directions.—173 Long Orange, Improved Long Orange, is another good sort for general purposes, and especially adapted to deep soils. Very productive; roots smooth and handsome. Saint Vallery.—Very straight roots, broad at the top. Of superior quality for table use. Of deep orange color. White Belgian.—In this we have a somewhat coarse, but excellent variety for stock, attaining largest size, and for this reason the most productive of all sorts. Grows partly above ground and can be gathered by hand. Yellow Belgian, another fine variet
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Cultural Directions.—173 Long Orange, Improved Long Orange, is another good sort for general purposes, and especially adapted to deep soils. Very productive; roots smooth and handsome. Saint Vallery.—Very straight roots, broad at the top. Of superior quality for table use. Of deep orange color. White Belgian.—In this we have a somewhat coarse, but excellent variety for stock, attaining largest size, and for this reason the most productive of all sorts. Grows partly above ground and can be gathered by hand. Yellow Belgian, another fine variety for stock, resembles the White Belgian, but is perhaps richer, and less productive. White Vosges is introduced as an enormously productive field carrot, adapted for shallow soils. Can be pulled up without the u^e of tools. Not recommended for the table. CATNIP. Nepeta cataria. German, Katzminze; French, Menthe de Chat, This perennial weed is quite common here, and more generally considered a nuisance than fit for cultivation. The leaves and young shoots are sometimes used for seasoning, and the plant has valuable medical properties. It is also appre- ciated as a honey-bearing plant, and cultivated on that account. It grows easily from seed sown in drills 18 or 20 inches apart, in almost any soil, and will need little or no attention. CAULIFLOWER. Brassica Oleracea {Botrytis), German, Blumenkohl; French, Chou-fleur; Spanish, Coliflor, High culture, deep, rich, moist soil plentifully provided with humus, and cool atmosphere, are the chief requisites for best success with this crop. Nice heads cannot be grown in hot, dry weather and soil; hence gardeners always aim to have the plants head up either in early summer or in late autumn. For early crop the plants are wintered over in cold frames, or grown in greenhouses or hot-beds during the winter, in the same way as already described for early cabbages; but being less hardy, they need more protection, by mats, shutters, etc.
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