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HORTICULTURE 



LECT. VII 



and the care taken in having them ready early doubles 

 the value of the crops. 



The Brown Cos variety, sown in the autumn and 

 grown thinly, so that the air plays round every plant 

 and makes it hardy, often stands the winter without 

 protection, and the lettuces that follow may pay the 

 grower well. If tied up when dry, in April, May, 

 and June, they sell readily at Sd. and lOd. a dozen, 



FIG. 24. RAISING AND PLANTING GREEN CROPS. 



1. Thinly-grown sturdy plant properly taken up, and planted, (2) in the 

 best soil. 3. A spindling, through overcrowding, dragged up and then 

 thrust down with its few roots into the subsoil. 



according to earliness and quality ; and grown a foot 

 apart, crops have realized ,70 an acre. 



Last year a hard-working gardener sowed seed of 

 Lee's Hardy Hammersmith Cabbage Lettuce, very 

 thinly, in drills a foot apart, towards the end of 

 August, and as soon as the plants appeared thinned 

 them to three inches asunder at first, and afterwards 

 drew a few more out, leaving them from six to eight 

 inches apart. Nearly all passed through a very long 



