Steckler's seeds : 1915 . cutleaves. Our strain is a long-standingtype. It is large, hardy and practicallyall heart, requiring but little aid inblanching. BBOAD-LBAVBD OB BATAVIANBSCABOLLB.—It has broad, thickleaves with rounded ends, much largerin size and not deeply fringed like thepreceding sort. This is used in the^natural state as an appetizing and mostwholesome salad, and is also used for aboiling-green to be cooked like spinach. WHITB CUBLBD—A larger size, withlonger leaves; is similar to the GreenCurled, but the leaves are naturally of alight golden tint and they do not have tobe tied
Steckler's seeds : 1915 . cutleaves. Our strain is a long-standingtype. It is large, hardy and practicallyall heart, requiring but little aid inblanching. BBOAD-LBAVBD OB BATAVIANBSCABOLLB.—It has broad, thickleaves with rounded ends, much largerin size and not deeply fringed like thepreceding sort. This is used in the^natural state as an appetizing and mostwholesome salad, and is also used for aboiling-green to be cooked like spinach. WHITB CUBLBD—A larger size, withlonger leaves; is similar to the GreenCurled, but the leaves are naturally of alight golden tint and they do not have tobe tied up to blanch them for table use. WITLOOP-CHICOBY, OB PBENCH.— The principal use of Witloof is as aWinter salad, and it is most deliciousserved with French dressing and eatenlike Coss lettuce. The seed should be sownin the open ground not later than June, indrills twelve to eighteen inches apart,Ihinning out the plants so that they will-stand not closer than three inches. Theplant forms long parsnip-shaped roots, and. Green Curled. these should be lifted in the Fall, cuttingoff the leaves and then store in soil in acool place until wanted for forcing. Theroots should be planted in a trench sixteento eighteen inches deep and placed uprightabout one and a half to two inches apart,which will allow the neck of the root tocome within nine inches of the level of thetrench. The treijch should be filled with alight soil, and if a quicker growth is de-sired, this can be accomplished by a mulchof fresh manure about two feet deep. Itrequires about one month to force theroots, and the heads are cut off with asmall portion of the neck of the rootattached. GARLIC.
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