. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 200 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENING in a warm dry place. Care should be exercised in the hand- ling so that no bruised potatoes Will be put in storage. Swiss Chgrd is a form of beet, but the root is small and the top is large and edible (Fig. 114). The little green wrinkled leaves have given 'it the name " Silver ; They are cooked as greens the same as spinach. The thickened mid-. PiG. 114.—Swiss chard with long wliite leaf-
. School and home gardening; a text book for young people, with plans, suggestions and helps for teachers, club leaders and organizers. Gardening; School gardens. 200 SCHOOL AND HOME GARDENING in a warm dry place. Care should be exercised in the hand- ling so that no bruised potatoes Will be put in storage. Swiss Chgrd is a form of beet, but the root is small and the top is large and edible (Fig. 114). The little green wrinkled leaves have given 'it the name " Silver ; They are cooked as greens the same as spinach. The thickened mid-. PiG. 114.—Swiss chard with long wliite leaf-stems to be stewed and served with cream. (Cornell Reading Circle Leaflet.) ribs are sometimes served with cream, like asparagus. The seed is drilled thinly in rows eighteen inches apart and the largest plants are first harvested, leaving the crop with the plants six or eight inches apart in the row. If the main crop is cut or pulled without injuring the crowns of the plants they will continue to produce new foliage for succession crop- ping. Chard may be transplanted as in the case of spinach. The crop is rather hardy and will stand some Into spring Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Kary Cadmus, 1867-. Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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