FRESH LETTUCE 133 



are sturdy grey-foliage d stocks waiting to be moved 

 into heat when the time comes for them to be sent 

 to a customer. 



In this brief summary of what the young gar- 

 deners have in their charge, I have not mentioned 

 the frames, which form an important addition to 

 our housing space. There are many rows of them, 

 and although they are not grand ones like the 

 brick-foundation pits that are seen in private 

 gardens, a knowledge of them will probably be all 

 the more useful to students when, in the future, 

 they start market-gardens of their own. Tarred 

 wood which has been used on the railway lines 

 forms the framework, and the lights, unglazed, are 

 bought separately by the dozen and in wet weather, 

 when other work is stopped, the students are taught 

 how to put glass in them and paint the woodwork. 

 Having commenced with one three-light frame, 

 we have added many each year and now possess 

 fifty or more. In them are rows and rows of fresh 

 green lettuce, and as fast as one plant is taken for 

 a customer, another is planted in its place, so that 

 an uninterrupted succession continues throughout 

 the winter. In others are carrots and radishes, all 

 carefully labelled so that a record can be kept of 

 those varieties that are found to be most popular ; 

 notes are also kept each year as to the time of 

 sowing. Sweet-peas too are there, sown towards 

 the end of September and therefore tall enough 

 to have slender stakes round them, while Spanish 

 irises in boxes are waiting to be brought into 

 greater warmth, and strawberries in pots, getting 

 ready for forcing, complete the list of what we have. 



