. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Chicory. Collard. i88—How to Make the Garden Pay. as parsnips. It succeeds everywhere, and is improved by frost. The stalks grow tall and vigorous, and die down early in the season, indicating that the tubers have reached maturity. CHICORY. Cickorium Intybus; German, Cichoyie; French, Chicoree; Spanish, Achicoria.—Chicory is generally known as a substitute for coffee. For this purpose the root is roasted and ground. The vegetable is easily grown, some- what like carrots. Seed should be sown in spring, in drills a foot apart, and plants thinn
. How to make the garden pay [microform]. Gardening. Chicory. Collard. i88—How to Make the Garden Pay. as parsnips. It succeeds everywhere, and is improved by frost. The stalks grow tall and vigorous, and die down early in the season, indicating that the tubers have reached maturity. CHICORY. Cickorium Intybus; German, Cichoyie; French, Chicoree; Spanish, Achicoria.—Chicory is generally known as a substitute for coffee. For this purpose the root is roasted and ground. The vegetable is easily grown, some- what like carrots. Seed should be sown in spring, in drills a foot apart, and plants thinned to about 4 inches distance in the drills. The leaves are sometimes blanched and used as salad. The blanching is done in the cellar. The plants should be taken up at the begin- ning of cold weather, the leaves cut off i^-inch or so above the root crown, and placed horizontally in layers, alternating with layers of sand or soil, the root crowns all pointing outward of the sloping heaps, to give them a chance for free growth. If the soil is rather dry, a slight watering may be given. In a few weeks, if the temperature of the cellar is high enough, the leaves will have made considerable growth, and may be used. CHIVES. Allium Schoenoprasum; German, Schnittlauch; French Civette ; Spanish, Cibellino, A plant of the onion family, growing in large tufts, perfectly hardy, and requiring no attention after being once planted. Bulbs, oval and small, forming a compact mass. Leaves nunier- ous and slender, and generally used in the raw state as a relish, with bread and butter, etc. Propagated by division of the root. Planted in permanent border, 6 or 8 inches apart. COLLARD OR COLEWORT. Brassica Oleracea. Nothing more nor less than common cabbage used while young. It seems to me that one might be satisfied with the good American name " cabbage greens," and as such they arie known and used quite commonly in the Cultural Directions.—189 southern states. Cabbage seed is sown
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