Garlic

Garlic is a great Creole Vegetable, a bulbous-rooted plant, with a strong, penetrating odor, and highly esteemed as a flavoring for soups, stews, roasts and various other dishes. Garlic is a staple product of the lower Louisiana parishes, and is raised for home consumption and for shipping. More Garlic is grown and used in Louisiana than in all the other states together. It is cultivated like the Onion. In the spring the bulbs are taken up and plaited together in long strings. One of these strings contains from fifty to sixty heads, in double rows. They are then hung up in a dry, airy place, or stored away. They will keep from six to eight months. Great strings of Garlic adorn the stalls of the French Market daily.