VEGETABLES LETTUCE. 



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more labor than any other vegetable to prepare it 

 for market. Figure 49 represents the Musselburgh 

 Leek, trimmed previous to being 

 bunched up for market. From 

 six to eight roots are tied in 

 each bunch, which bring in the 

 market, upon an average, through- 

 out the season, about 75 cents 

 per dozen bunches. We plant 

 about 85,000 plants on an acre. 



The two varieties used, are 

 known as Musselburgh and Lon- 

 don Flag. The former is rath- 

 er preferred in market, being 



Fig. 49,-MussELBURGH USU:lll y larger, but there is but 

 LEEK. little choice between them. 



LETTUCE. (Lactuca 



Perhaps there is no plant of the garden that we could so 

 ill afford to dispense with as Lettuce. Its cultivation is uni- 

 versal, by all classes, and from its tractable nature and 

 freedom from nearly all insects and diseases, it is manage- 

 able in the hands of every one. In a well appointed mar- 

 ket garden, it is the most important vegetable cultivated, 

 engaging our attention throughout the entire year, either 

 in the open ground in summer, in forcing houses or hot- 

 beds in winter, or in cold frames in spring. As our mode 

 of growing it under glass is sufficiently described in treat- 



