THE FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES OF AMERICA
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t only greatly impairs their quality, but causes them to decay at the crown. Remove the leaves, being careful not to cut or bruise the crown; spread the roots in the sun a few hours to
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April, transplant them eighteen inches or two feet apart, sinking the crowns to a level with the surface of the ground. As the stalks increase in height, tie them to stakes for support.
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six or seven inches in its greatest diameter, contracted towards the crown, thickest just below the surface of the soil, but nearly retaining its size for half the depth, and thence ta
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, seven or eight inches long, by about four inches in diameter at the crown, which is large, flat, greenish, and level with the surface of the ground. Skin white, tinted with amber, smo
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apering, white, and semi-transparent, and furnished on the top of the crown with a mass of scaly bulbs, sometimes amounting to fifty in number, by means of which the plant can be easily
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al bulbs, and transplant them in April, two feet asunder, sinking the crowns to a
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een inches in length, and rather more than an inch in diameter at the crown. _Soil and Cultivation._--The Oyster-plant succeeds best in a light, well-enriched, mellow soil; which, prev
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ows two feet apart, and one foot apart in the rows, just covering the crowns with earth, or leaving the young shoots level with the surface of the ground. An ounce of seed will sow eig
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in diameter, somewhat fusiform, and very smooth and symmetrical. The crown rises two or three inches above the surface of the ground, and is of a green color, except where exposed to t
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stant, and from nine to twelve inches apart in the lines, sinking the crowns just below the surface of the ground. As the plants advance in height, tie them to stakes for support. The s
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e large bulbs, and set them on the ridges, ten inches apart, with the crown of the bulbs just below the surface of the ground. The subsequent culture consists in keeping them clean from
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pread out like a fan perpendicularly against the side of the cut, the crown of the plant being kept two inches below the surface of the ground. Some dig out a trench, and form little hi
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n or eighteen inches in height. The leaves are finely curled; and the crowns of the plants, as well as the young shoots, are tender and delicate, especially after having been exposed to
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e laid on the plants, so as to pile or bank up eight inches above the crowns of the roots, thus forming a flat-topped bank a foot across; widening a little downwards, so that the edges
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into pieces, each having a portion of the root and a small bit of the crown, which is thickly set with buds, which spring freely on being replanted. "Most of the species of this genus,
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cceed them. "In cutting, take off the leaves with a thin slice of the crown, to keep them together, as in cutting sea-kale. When washed, and tied up in small bundles of a handful each,
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lows: Trench the ground eighteen inches or two feet deep, and set the crowns or leading buds of old roots, cut off about three inches in length, in rows a foot apart, and nine inches fr
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form, and comparatively solid; the sides are brownish-red, but at the crowns the color is changed to clear, bright-red; the outer leaves are short, broad, and round, and strongly marked
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-white color, and about three-fourths of an inch in diameter near the crown or at its broadest part; the flesh of the root is white, fine-grained, with a flavor not unlike that of the c
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e set three feet apart, as directed for seedling plants; covering the crowns three inches deep. _Use._--Lovage was formerly cultivated as an esculent; but its use as such has long been
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fore the ground closes, cut off the tops within an inch or two of the crowns, pack in earth or sand, and store in the cellar for winter. _To raise Seeds._--Reset a few roots in April,
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and resemble a small sunflower; the seeds are narrow, four-sided, and crowned with down. The plants blossom in July and August, and there is but one variety cultivated. _Propagation a
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ans of sea-kale pots, or by empty casks open at the top, put over the crowns in March. It can, however, be more perfectly done by taking up the roots, and placing them in some dark plac
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Dutch, 49. Early Short Horn, 49. Guernsey, 49. Hollow-crowned, 50. Hollow-crowned Guernsey, 50. Hollow-headed, 50. Long Jersey, 50. Long Smooth Dutch, 49
Variegated, 447.
Tare, 558.
Summer, 559.
White, 558.
Winter, 559.
Tarragon, 400.
Tetragonia expansa, 295.
Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris, 303.
Thousand-headed Cabbage, 249.
Thyme, 447.
Broad-leaved, 447.
Common, 447.
Evergreen, 447.
Lemon, 449.
Narrow-leaved, 448.
Variegated, 448.
Thymus citriodorus, 449.
" vulgaris, 447.
Tobacco, 633.
Broad-leaved, 635.
Connecticut Seed-leaf, 634.
Green, 637.
Guatemala, 635.
Negro-head, 638.
Oronoco, 638.
Peach-leaf, 634.
Turkish, 637.
Virginian, 634.
Tomato, 639.
Apple, 643.
Apple-shaped, 643.
Bermuda, 643.
Cluster, 646.
Early Red, 651.
Extra Early, 651.
Fejee, 644.
Fig, 644.
Giant, 645.
Grape, 646.
Large Red, 646.
Large Red Oval, 647.
Large Yellow, 647.
Lester's Perfected, 648.
Mammoth, 645.
Mexican, 648.
New Upright, 650.
Perfected, 648.
Pomo d'Oro Lesteriano, 648.
Red Cherry, 649.
Red Pear-shaped, 644.
Red Plum, 649.
Round Red, 649.
Round Yellow, 649.
Seedless, 650.
Tomate de Laye, 650.
Tree, 650.
White, 651.
White's Extra Early, 651.
Yellow Cherry, 652.
Yellow Fig, 652.
Yellow Pear-shaped, 652.
Yellow Plum, 652.
Tota Bona, 313.
Tragopogon porrifolius, 92.
Trauxuda Kale, 273.
Tree Primrose, 35.
Tropæolum, 388.
" majus, 389.
" minus, 390.
" tuberosum, 103.
Truffle, 589.
Common, 589.
Piedmontese, 590.
Tuber cibarium, 589.
" magnatum, 590.
" melanosporum, 590.
Tuberous-rooted Chickling Vetch, 103.
Pea, 103.
Tropæolum, 103.
Wood-sorrel, 41.
Turkey Rhubarb, 573.
Turnip-rooted Celery, 331.
Turnip, 104.
Altrincham, 106.
Altringham, 106.
Autumn Stubble, 115.
Border Imperial, 106.
Border Imperial Purple-top Yellow, 106.
Chiva's Orange Jelly, 106.
Common Field Globe, 118.
Cow-horn, 107.
Dale's Hybrid, 107.
Decanter, 110.
Early Dwarf, 115.
Early Flat Dutch, 107.
Early Stone, 119.
Early White Dutch, 107.
Early Yellow Dutch, 108.
Finland, 108.
Freneuse, 108.
Golden Ball, 109.
Golden Maltese, 120.
Green Globe, 109.
Green Norfolk, 110.
Green Round, 110.
Green Tankard, 110.
Green-top Flat, 110.
Green-top Norfolk, 110.
Green-top White Globe, 109.
Green-top Yellow Aberdeen, 111.
Green-top Yellow Bullock, 111.
Hungarian Green-top Globe, 109.
Lincolnshire Red Globe, 111.
Liverpool Yellow, 112.
Long Black, 111.
Long Early White Vertus, 107.
Long White Clairfontaine, 111.
Long White Maltese, 111.
Maltese, 120.
Mouse-tail, 119.
Navet Boule de Neige, 116.
Navet Gros d'Alsace, 119.
Petrosowoodsks, 112.
Pomeranian Globe, 112.
Preston, 112.
Purple-top Aberdeen, 114.
Purple-top Flat, 112.
Purple-top Strap-leaved, 113.
Purple-top Yellow Aberdeen, 114.
Purple-top Yellow Bullock, 114.
Red Globe, 114.
Red Norfolk, 114.
Red Round, 114.
Red Tankard, 115.
Red-top Flat, 112.
Red Mouse-tail, 119.
Red-top Norfolk, 114.
Robertson's Golden Stone, 115.
Round Black, 115.
Six-weeks, 115.
Small Berlin, 117.
Small Long Yellow, 116.
Snow-ball, 116.
Stone Globe, 116.
Tankard, 110.
Teltau, 117.
Teltow, 117.
Waite's Hybrid Eclipse, 117.
White Dutch, 107.
White Garden Stone, 119.
White Globe, 118.
White Norfolk, 118.
White Round, 118.
White Stone, 119.
White Tankard, 119.
White-top Flat, 120.
White-top Strap-leaved, 120.
Yellow Altrincham, 106.
Yellow Dutch, 108.
Yellow Finland, 108.
Yellow Globe, 109.
Yellow Malta, 120.
Yellow Scarisbrick, 121.
Yellow Stone, 121.
Yellow Tankard, 121.
Turnip Cabbage, 38.
Turnip-rooted Chervil, 31.
Tussilago farfara, 564.
Unicorn Plant, 612.
Urtica dioica, 293.
Valeriana, 401.
" cornucopiæ, 401.
" locusta, 339.
Valerianella eriocarpa, 340.
Vegetable Oyster, 92.
Veronica beccabunga, 316.
Vetch, or Tare, 558.
Napoléon Pea, 558.
Summer, 559.
White, 558.
Winter, 559.
Vicia faba, 503.
" sativa, 558.
Water-cress, 401.
Water-melon, 192.
Welsh Onion, 147.
Ciboule Blanche Hative, 147.
Common, 147.
Early White, 147.
Red, 147.
White, 147.
West-Indian Bean, 499.
West-Indian Cress, 387.
West-Indian Cucumber, 199.
White Beet, 289.
Wild Endive, 334.
Wild Navew, 394.
Wild Spinach, 313.
Winged Pea, 559.
Winter Cherry, 592.
Purple, 593.
Winter Cress, 403.
Common, 403.
Wood-sorrel, 404.
Worms, 405.
Wormwood, 576.
Common, 576.
Roman, 577.
Sea, 577.
Yellow Rocket, 403.
Ysano, 103.
Zea mays, 594.
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