Early Spring Vegetables 



planting than Hanson or All Season — another 

 most excellent head lettuce — a sure header and 

 slow to run to seed ; it makes an immense head — 

 almost as large as a Flat Dutch Cabbage, with 

 beautifully blanched inner leaves and a fine, 

 buttery flavor. 



Of the loose-leaved lettuce the Grand Rapids 

 Forcing Lettuce is the best known. This is a 

 good sort to grow in the hotbed and may be 

 allowed to remain after the other vegetables are 

 removed, resetting to stand a few inches apart. 

 The leaves are upright and loose, beautifully 

 green and curled and the flavor crisp and de- 

 licious. It may be grown to use while the other 

 sorts are heading. 



Romaine or Coss Lettuce is the sort served in 

 the big hotels as Romaine salad. It requires 

 transplanting either from the hotbed to the open 

 ground or from the seed row in the open ground 

 to another row. It should stand about four 

 inches apart in the row as the gi'owth is upright, 

 rather than spreading, and when of sufficient 

 size the leaves must be tied together to blanch. 



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