24 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Selected plants of lettuce should be allowed to stand in place until 

 there is danger of serious loss from shattering, then each plant 

 covered with a large inverted paper bag, the lower end tied about 

 the plant so as to save the early matured seed which drops, and 

 allow to stand until most of the seed is matured. The plants still 

 enclosed in the sacks may be cut and stored in any dry airy 

 place until thoroughly dry, when the seed may be winnowed clean 

 and stored. 



Seeds of biennial plants like cabbage, beets, carrots, etc., are 

 less easily grown and saved in the home garden than those matur- 

 ing the first year, but it may in some cases be profitably done by 

 planting the crop so late in the season that the plants will barely 

 reach usable maturity before winter and then protect them from 

 severe and repeated freezing and thawing by covering with earth 

 and coarse litter, or by storing in a cool, moist cellar where they can 

 be kept at a uniform temperature just above freezing, and uncover- 

 ing or resetting the roots as early in the spring as they will be safe 

 from severe freezing. The second season seed bearing plants 

 should be treated as recommended for lettuce. 



