are not well adapted for planting out, although in a warm season they will fruit freely under a sunny wall, and will grow in a gravel walk if helped at first with a little good soil round the roots.  If required in quantity for the table, the purple variety may be grown in a frame from plants raised on a hot-bed.  Generally speaking, a few plants in pots are all that are required where the fruit is not valued as an esculent.

==Endive==

==Cichorium Endivia==

As a result of the growing taste for wholesome salads Endive has considerably advanced in public esteem.  The flavour of well-blanched Endive suits most palates that have had experience of salads, and of the salutary properties of the plant we have a hint in its close relation to the Chicory.

The selection of sorts is a question of importance, because the handsome curled varieties that make the best appearance on the table, and might be regarded as ornaments if they were not edible, are the very finest for salads, being tender, with a fresh nutty flavour.  The broad-leaved sorts are not so well adapted for salads as for stews, and they take the place of Lettuces when the latter are not available for soups and ragouts.  However, when an emergency occurs, the curled varieties will be found suitable for cooking, and the broad-leaved for salading, and therefore there need be no waste where one sort predominates.

==Soil==.—­A difficulty common to Endive culture may be got over in the way advised for Celeriac.  The plant requires a light, dry, sandy soil; and a portion, at least, of the crop is expected to stand through the winter.  Thus on a heavy soil there is a prospect of failure in respect of the late crop, but that is obviated by adopting a made bed—­one of smallish dimensions being sufficient to accommodate a large stock of plants.  Select an open spot, make a foundation of any hard rubbish that is at hand, and on this put one to two feet of sandy soil.  This will form a raised bed of a kind exactly suited to the plant, and will cost but little as compared with its ultimate value.  If regularly dressed with manure, and otherwise well managed, the bed will supply Endive in winter and other salads in summer, or it may be cropped with Dwarf Beans, which can be removed in August to make way for the usual planting of Endive.  Where the soil is naturally light and dry no such preparation is needed, but Endive does not come to perfection without food, and therefore the soil should be rich and deeply dug.

==Sowing and Transplanting==.—­The seed may be sown as early as March, in a moderate heat, but the latter part of April is early enough for most purposes, and the main sowings are made in June.  Later sowings may follow in July and August.  But the June sowing is the most important, as by a little careful management it will supply a few early heads and many late ones.  Sow in shallow drills six inches apart, and when the plants are an inch