. Dreer's Open-air vegetables. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMPOSITES. Artichoke—Globe, Endive, Sunflower, Artichoke—Jerusalem, Lettuce, Tansy, Cardoon, Salsify, Tarragon, Chicory, Salsify—Black, Wormwood. Dandelion, The composite - flowered vegetables are mostly hardy. Lettuce is the most important member of the group. The blossom type is peculiar, the flowers being what the older botanists called compound. In other words, each so-called flower is a collection of several or many individual flowers. The Chicory is a good example. ARTICHOKES. The two commercial Ar
. Dreer's Open-air vegetables. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. CHAPTER XXIV. THE COMPOSITES. Artichoke—Globe, Endive, Sunflower, Artichoke—Jerusalem, Lettuce, Tansy, Cardoon, Salsify, Tarragon, Chicory, Salsify—Black, Wormwood. Dandelion, The composite - flowered vegetables are mostly hardy. Lettuce is the most important member of the group. The blossom type is peculiar, the flowers being what the older botanists called compound. In other words, each so-called flower is a collection of several or many individual flowers. The Chicory is a good example. ARTICHOKES. The two commercial Artichokes, Globe and Jerusalem, are of wholly different types. The former furnishes edible buds or heads ; the latter edible tubers. Jerusalem Artichoke is merely a tuberous-rooted sunflower. Globe Artichoke. The edible portion is the undeveloped flower head. After the head unfolds it is unfit for use ; and if the heads are not removed the plant ceases to produce new buds. The heads are tender and fleshy, and are boiled, and served with butter, pepper and salt. The plant is a per- ennial. The seed should be sown an inch and a half deep, and thinned out to a foot apart in the row. The next spring the plants should be set in a permanent bed, at distances of two by 118. GLUBE 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 Dreer, Henry A. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, H. A. Dreer
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