The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



It is very crisp and delicious lettuce when quickly- 

 grown by the aid of much fertilizer, good culture 

 and moisture, but lacking these is rather tough 

 and bitter. Nitrates may be used to advantage, 

 applied along the rows after the plants are 

 transplanted. 



All lettuce is at best in spring and early sum- 

 mer. It is very difficult to grow good lettuce in 

 hot weather. If a width of cheese cloth is 

 stretched over the row and the soil kept moist 

 much better results can be secured. Leaf lettuce 

 is more easily managed in mid-summer than head 

 .lettuce and unless one can give special attention 

 this is a better sort to sow for succession. 



ONIONS 



Are an all-the-year-round vegetable and be- 

 long to each season according to how they are 

 handled. For green onions, early in spring, the 

 White Potato, or Multiplier, Onions are deserv- 

 edly popular; these are usually raised from sets 

 planted in drills where they are to form a per- 

 manent bed and cultivated during summer; they 



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