Vi LETTUCE. 



ground be really good, as it ought to be, each leek will 

 be as big as your wrist in the month of October. They 

 will stand the winter perfectly well without any covering 

 at all j but, as a provision against hard frost, some plants 

 should always be taken up and put into earth or sand in 

 a shed or in a cellar, for the same reasons as those stated 

 under the head of Celery. Three or four leeks that have 

 stood the winter may be left at the end of one of the 

 rows, or, if you please, moved to another spot to produce 

 seed which would be ripe in the month of August, and 

 give you enough for yourself, and for two or three 

 neighbours. 



157. LETTUCE. This great article of the garden 

 is milky, refreshing, and pleasanter to a majority of 

 tastes than almost any other plant. So necessary is it 

 deemed as the principal ingredient of a good salad, that 

 it is, in France and America, generally called " Salad" 

 and scarcely ever by any other name. It is therefore a 

 thing worthy of particular attention, not only as to pro- 

 pagation and cultivation, but as to sorts. The way to 

 sow lettuce in the natural ground is this j make the 

 ground rich to begin with, draw the drills across the bed 

 fifteen inches apart, sow the seed thinly in these drills, 

 and press the earth nicely down upon them, which work 

 i to be done as early as you can do it well, in the month 

 of March. When the plants come up, thin them quickly 

 to four inches apart. When they get to be about four or 

 five inches high, leave one and take up two throughout 

 all the rows, and then hoe the ground nicely between 

 the remaining plants, having before-hand made another 

 bed to receive the plants thus taken up ; plant these in 



