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About the twentieth of March make a second sow- 

 ing of the same quantity of seed in a box or pot in 

 the window. The young plants will be ready to set 

 out in the garden in about thirty days. As the first 

 crop is still in the ground, set these new plants in a 

 small bed by themselves about three inches apart. 

 They will stand in this bed till there is room made 

 for them by the maturing of the first crop. As fast 

 as a head is ripe, pull it up and send it to the table, 

 and stir up the soil and set a new plant from the 

 small bed. Leave none of the space idle and keep 

 transplanting at every opportunity that offers. It 

 will be found that the crop will mature faster at 

 times than it can be eaten. In this case the heads 

 can stand for a day or two without injury. Small as 

 the bed is, it will carry in various stages from four to 

 seven dozen or even more through the early summer, 

 and will easily give one head a day for the larger part 

 of the season. With care it will be quite possible to 

 have a head a day from June first to October first, or 

 even later. If there is any gap in the supply, it will 

 come in July or August, when the warm weather 

 causes the plants to run up to seed. 



The third planting should be in the open border 

 about the middle of April, transplanting three inches 

 apart as soon as the plants crowd each other, and a 

 foot apart when the young plants again touch each 

 other. For the fourth planting, which will be out- 

 of-doors, use the " Hanson " lettuce, and this should 

 be sown by the tenth of May. Plant the " White Rus- 

 sian " on the first of June and twentieth of June. To 

 extend the season, plant the " Tennis Ball ' variety 

 again on the first of August, and for the last time 

 about the fifteenth of August. These last two plant- 

 ings will carry the crop well into October and keep 

 up the supply till the frost cuts the plants down. 



