There is one part of kitchen-gardening carried to a great extent here, which deserves particular attention in every place, from the smallest to the most extensive; viz., the raising of winter salading. Wherever there is a cucumber-frame this may be done to a certain extent; but, even without frames with glazed roofs, roofs of wickerwork, covered in severe weather with thatch or reeds (fig. 37.), will effectually preserve endive and chicory. What are called small salads may be raised in every kitchen; and blanched chicory from the previous year's roots (as Dr. Lippold has shown, p. 250.) may be produced in every cellar. At , we found long ranges of frames filled with endive, brown Cos lettuce, and large quantities, also, of full-grown endive, placed in the floors of the vineries and peach-houses, not in a state of forcing, but of slow or imperceptible growth, amounting almost to complete hybernation. There was also a large plot of chicory for the purpose of being dug up during winter, and forced into leaf in any warm dark shed or cellar, in the Dutch, Belgic, German, and Russian manner. Two or three hot-beds were already filled with pots of Neapolitan violets, which are here regularly forced throughout the whole winter, their blossoms being much in demand for perfuming apartments.
