SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING 



In transplanting lettuce, the plants should at 

 first be put four inches apart, and when they have 

 covered the ground should be moved to eight 

 inches apart in the houses. 



In hot-beds, fifty plants are put under each 

 3x6 sash, which makes the distances separating 

 the plants about seven and a half inches each way. 



The price for lettuce, through the winter, 

 averages about four cents per single head, or 

 fifty cents per dozen. Three crops can be grown 

 in the hot-houses during the winter. Three can 

 be taken from the hot-beds also, if the plants are 

 in the houses and grown there until the last 

 transplanting. 



The heat for hot-beds, as has before been said, 

 is mostly horse manure fresh from the stable; 

 and it takes one cord of this for every eight sash 

 for the early winter beds; but for those started 

 after the fifteenth of February one cord will answer 

 for twelve sash. The expense of this, all put into 

 the bed and ready for use, is nearly one dollar 

 per sash, reckoning the putting down of bed, 

 putting on sash, mats, and shutters, and bed set 

 out to lettuce; so that the cost of raising lettuce 

 in the winter with four dozen under each sash is 



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