. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS 481. Endive. — One of the best fall salad vegetables, being far superior tolettuce at that time and as easily fall use, the seed may be sownfrom June to August, and as the plantsbecome fit to eat about the same timefrom sowing as lettuce does, a successionmay be had until cold weather. Theplants will need protection from thesevere fall frosts, and this may be givenby carefully lifting the plants and trans-planting
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . THE GROWING OF THE VEGETABLE PLANTS 481. Endive. — One of the best fall salad vegetables, being far superior tolettuce at that time and as easily fall use, the seed may be sownfrom June to August, and as the plantsbecome fit to eat about the same timefrom sowing as lettuce does, a successionmay be had until cold weather. Theplants will need protection from thesevere fall frosts, and this may be givenby carefully lifting the plants and trans-planting to a frame, where sash or clothmay be used to coverthem in freezing leaves, which con-stitute practically the whole plant, are blanched beforebeing used, either by tying together with some softmaterial (Fig. 308) or by standing boards on each sideof the row, allowing the top of the boards to meet overthe center of the row. Tie the leaves only when they? Wm ) are dry. The rows should be 1| or 2 feet apart, the plants1 foot apart in the rows. One ounce of seed will sow150 feet of drill. 308. Endive tied up. Garlic. — An onion-like plant, the bulbs of which
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