6# LETTUCE. 



fection during 1 mild afnd temperate weather, it is needless fb/ 

 the gardener to plant any in the open ground, but such as 

 have been tested, and found to stand a tolerable share of 

 warm weather, which generally prevail in May and June, 

 and consequently cuts short the Salad season. Those who 

 have been accustomed to raise Head Lettuce in any quantity, 

 know the trouble of preparing and planting the ground, and 

 the loss they would sustain, if several thousand of plants run 

 up to seed just as they appeared to be perfecting for market. 

 As this is often the case, even with the very best attention, I 

 would caution gardeners to test such plants as they are not 

 acquainted with, before they set out any quantity with a 

 view to their heading. 



The six varieties inserted in the' first column of our 

 catalogue, have been known to stand our Winters, and may 

 fee sown from the first to the middle of September, in rich 

 ground free from weeds ; they answer very well sown with 

 Spinach, and should be covered over with straw at the 

 approach of severe weather. These plants, if transplanted 

 into warm borders, or in the open ground, as early in March 

 as the weather permits, will produce fine heads early in 

 the month of May. 



The best of the tender kinds of Lettuce should be sown in 

 moderate hot- beds early in March, which being transplanted 

 into good ground by the middle of April, will produce thei r 

 heads before the approach of warm weather. Such kinds as 

 are known to produce heads' in hot weather, and also such 

 as may be required to cut as a small Salad while young, 

 may be sown in Warm 1 borders in March and April, but 

 those intended for heading should be transplanted as soon as 

 they are an inch or two in height, and kept in a growing 

 state by frequent hoeing,* or thy may run up to seed as th e 

 season advances. 



If it be an object with the gartfener to have good strong 

 Lettuce plants for transplanting, the seed should be sown 

 very thin. One ounce of good seed is sufficient for a border 

 of six feet in width by eighteen feet in length, and will pro- 

 duce from ten to twelve thousand plants.- 



