. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 167 ENDIVE.—This is another salad grown mostly for Fall use
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 167 ENDIVE.—This is another salad grown mostly for Fall use. Sow the same as Lettuce in June or July, and thin to about 12 in. It requires blanching to be ready for use. The individual heads may be tied up loosely with raffia, or two 6- or 8-in. boards temporarily nailed together in an inverted V shape may be placed over the row, blanch- ing a section at a time. Do not work crop when theleaves sire wet. HERBS.—^A few of the common or cuhneiry herbs should be grown in even the smedl vegetable garden. They are useful for flavoring during the Summer, and it is an easy matter to get a Winter supply by gathering and drying sprigs or foUage in Summer or Fall. They will keep in any dry place for Winter use. Hang them up in bunches. The garden herbs contain both annuals and biennials. Among the most popular of the former are Anise, used for flavoring and garnish- ing; Sweet Basil, used in stews and for seasorung various dishes; DOl, of which the seeds are used largely in making Cucumber. Improved Golden Wax pod Bean. 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 Dick, John Harrison, 1877- ed. New York, A. T. De La Mare company, inc
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