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feet of a hot-bed will give you a great quantity ot 

 real lettuces. Let one plant (a very fine one) 

 stand for seed ; and it will give you plenty of seed 

 for a year or two. Whenever you transplant 

 Lettuces, give them a little water, and, if it be a 

 small bed, shade them a little. If you sow in the 

 natural ground in the spring, be sure to transplant 

 into the shady borders. And be sure always to 

 make the ground rich for these fine Lettuces. 



231. MANGEL-WURZEL. This may be 

 called Cattle-beet. Some persons plant it in gar- 

 dens. It is a coarse Beet, and is cultivated and 

 preserved as the Beet is. 



232. MARJORAM. -One sort is annual and 

 one perennial. The former is called summer and 

 the la t~r winter. The first sown as early as pos- 

 sible in the spring ; and, the latter propagated by 

 offsets ; that is, by parting the roots. The plants 

 may stand pretty close. As the winter sort can- 

 ftot be got at in winter, some of both ought to be 

 preserved by drying. Cut it just before it comes 

 out into btoo?n, hang it up in little bunches to dry, 

 first, for a day, in the sun ; then in the shade ; 

 and, when quite dry, put it in paper bags, tied up 

 and the bags hung up in a dry place. 



233. MARIGOLD, An ANNUAL plant. Sow 

 the seed, spring or fall ; when (the bloom is at 

 full, gather the flowers ; pull the leaves of the 

 flower out of their sockets ; lay them on paper to 

 dry, in the shade. When dry put them into pa- 

 per bags. They are excellent in broths and soups 

 and stews. Two square yards planted with Ma- 

 rigolds will be sufficient. It is the single Mari- 

 gold that ought to be cultivated for culinary pur- 



