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• igorous grower; fruit of mammoth size, measurii\g from two and a 

 lalf to three inches around ; bright red color, firm, excellent quality, 

 •and very productive." 



Perhaps our readers would like to give this promising stranger a 

 rial. It is not the custom of periodicals to advertise gratuitously ; 

 ' nit as the object of this journal is to promote the dissemination of 

 good fruit in our COTintry, if any one wishes to procure plants of the 

 Piride of the Hudson, they can get tliem from E. 1\ Eoe, Cornwall- 

 on-the-Hudson, Orange County, New York, the gentleman who hrst 

 introduced it to public notice. 



LETTUCE. 



Who d<ies not welcome with a cheerful satisfaction the first 

 risp heads of lettuce that grace our tables in early spring ? If any 

 Jiere be among our readers who do not feel like rubbing their hands 

 in gleeful complacency as the tender, succulent leaves, nicely folded 

 over each other in delicate whiteness, are placed before them, they 

 had better pass this page by; it will have no interest for them. But 

 those who know how to enjoy a good head of lettuce after the long 

 winter, may derive some pleasure by reading on, even if they do not 

 find anything instructive to tliem in this short chapter abont a very 

 common, plain, simple vegetable. 



Those who wish to have nice early lettuce will sow the seed in 

 this month of September, not later than the middle of the month. 

 Having selected a bit of ground that is thoroughly drained, and in good 

 heart ; it should be spaded and pulverized in the usual manner, so as 

 to be light and porous, and perfectly friable, and the seed sown in 

 drills. The extent of the sowing will dejjend upon the number of heads 

 one wishes to winter over. In about a month the lettuce plants will 

 be ready for transplanting into the beds in which they are to pass the 

 winter. 



The bed in wiiich the plants are to pass the winter in tliis climate, 

 is what gardeners term a cold frame. This bed should be of good, 

 rich soil, well pulverized, located in some place sheltered — a spot 

 sheltered by buildings, or tight board fence — froni the cold, bleak winds 

 of winter and early spring, yet exposed to the south, so that it may 



