The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-04
Some Plants Grown for Greens"

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grown simply for their leaves is quite an
extensive one, and nowhere else is the
world, perhaps, is "boiled greens" a more
popular dish than in the south. Everybody
seems to like greens. end it is very short
period of the year when a dish of greens
fails to occupy prominent place on SOUTH
ern tables-th0se of the rich as well as the
poor. Sometimes a very severe winter
occurs to make quite gap in the usually
long season for greens, but it proves only
the means of causing return to greens
with renewed zest with the opening OF
spring.
The most commonly used plants for the
purpose are collards, turnips, cabbage,
and mustard. Less generally used arc the
kale, Brussels sprouts, spinach, dandellon
and cress-the upland cress. Young, beet
leaves are esteemed by many for the pur-
pose, and especially the variety known as
Swiss Chard. In the absence of better
plants the young leaves Of the radish come
in very well to supply the indispensable
dish of greens. Lettuce is also used 20 a
limited extent. and likewise celery, though
it is the stalk of the latter that is used
rather than the leaves
Brussels sprouts is a very excellent plant
to be grown in the home gardens. 1t is
cultivated exactly like cabbage. Early
paintings may be made early in the spring
for the first crop. Another planting should
be set out in May or June for autumn use,
and still another planting made at the
time of the sowing OF turnips. Very severe
weather will destroy the plants just as 1t
does cabbage and collards, but when the
winters are reasonably mild they
are not injured. Kale, or
borecole, as it is usually called, also
belongs to the Brussica family and is treated
the same way as cabbage. When Souched
by frost especially 1t makes as nice greens
as could be desired by many, bat cultivated
tastes regard it as much inferior to spinach.
1t can be grown for summer use or it nsy
bs sown in the fall. The time for sowing
spinach is in the fall-September or October,
and sometimes succeed in this latitude when
sown as late as the middle of November. 1t
can stand very severe cold, but It succumbs
to heat. 1t may be sown again In
February or March il fall sowings
have been neglected, but later sowings
than March are not likely to be very salts
| factory, compared to the earlier sowings.
Even boiled with a cube of bacon, spinach
makes a very nice dish Of greens, but the
nicer way is to boil the leaves whole and
serve with butter and pepper, the same as
asparagus. The dandelion. while very gen
| orally used in Europe and In the northern
| part of the United States, is rarely found In
our southern gardens. We find the com
mon variety as weed In our
gardens, but even. as such it is not
very generally disseminated in our
section. The cultivated varieties that were
| introduced by French scotsman are the
| kinds referred to here. The thick leaved
| or large leaved kind is to be chosen. 1t is
| a perennial, and a patch once well under
! way will yield its greens for many years.
| Sow the seed in the spring, and transplant
| in rows two feet apart aud keep the plat
clean until the dandelion gets we'll estab-
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the winter il the weather should promise to
be very severe. The French use it generally
| as a salad lust as we do celery. The
isaves can be bIarched in the fall by applying
| straw on them. AS it can be used either
raw or cooked as greens, a small plat of it
will be found very desirable in the home
garden. Get a packet OF seeds and try
few rows. You may like it better than
other plants now used for these purposes
| Every one likes change from time to time,
aud an inferior plant oftentimes proves
| more palatable for a while at least than
| something inrrinscAlly better For greens
there is nothing superior to spinach, and yet
one becomes tired of it after long use and
would relish change TO something not 80
good even. Like the dandelion, the upland
cress is a plant adapted to use as greens or
as a salad. Its pungent taste is greatly
pelished by all who have become accustomed
to its use. 1t is q perennial plant, at any
rate biennial Sown early in the spring in
rows eighteen TO twenty inches apart it
should be kept perfectly clean until well
established.
We have so many plants suitable for use
as greens No one who has q little patch
need be without something the year round.
Even parsley and dock are oftentlmes used
by the poor near the large cities as greens.
What with cabbage or collsrds, mustard,
turnips. kale, brussels sprouts. spinach
dandelion and cress the southern gardener
however, has little need for resorting to any
of the wild plants for his dish OF greens.
A B. G.