46 GARDENING FOR PROFIT. 



But we have not yet done with the use of the sashes ; 

 to make them still available, spare boxes or frames must 

 be made, in all respects similar to those in use for the Cab- 

 bage plants. These frames should be covered up during 

 winter with straw or leaves in depth sufficient to keep the 

 ground from freezing, so that they may be got at and be 

 in condition to be planted with Lettuce by the end of Feb- 

 ruary, or the first of March. By this time the weather 

 is always mild enough to allow the sashes to be taken off 

 from the Cabbage and Lettuce plants, and they are now 

 transferred to the spare frames to cover and forward the 

 Lettuce. Under each sash we plant fifty Lettuce plants, 

 having the ground first well enriched by digging in about 

 three inches of well rotted manure. The management of 

 the Lettuce for heading is in all respects similar to that 

 used in preserving the plants in winter ; the only thing to 

 be attended to, being to give abundance of air, and on the 

 occasion of rain to remove the sashes entirely, so that the 

 ground may receive a good soaking, which will tend to 

 promote a more rapid and luxuriant growth. 



The crop is fit for market in about six weeks from time 

 of planting, which is always two or three weeks sooner 

 than that from the open ground. The average price for 

 all planted is about $4 per hundred at wholesale, so that 

 again, with little trouble, our crop gives us $2 per sash in 

 ix weeks. 



I believe this second use of the sash is not practiced 

 outside of this district, most gardeners having the opinion 

 that the winter plants of Cauliflower, Cabbage, or Lettuce, 

 would be injured by their complete exposure to the 

 weather at as early a date as the first of March. In fact. 



