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The one important factor to be kept in mind with fall tomatoes 
is to get an early start and have all the fruit set before the period 
of dark, gloomy weather. This will necessitate sowing the seed 
the latter part of June in order to have the plants ready for the 
beds the latter part of August. These plants should give a good 
crop of mature fruit for the Thanksgiving and Christmas markets. 
The usual cropping plan followed by most growers in New 
York State is lettuce and radishes in fall and winter. In spring 
the houses are given over to tomatoes and cucumbers, most men 
sacrificing an extra crop of lettuce in spring for an early crop 
of cucumbers or tomatoes. 
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Fic, 368.— PLANTING LETTUCE IN A LARGE COMMERCIAL HOUSE 
LETTUCE 
There are two types of lettuce grown at Irondequoit, the leaf 
or bunching type and the Grand Rapids variety of this type. 
A loose head type is grown for local market, the variety being 
known as May King or Improved Keene. The Grand Rapids let- 
tuce is shipped to smaller towns of the state and to the mining 
districts in northern Pennsylvania. The growers in smaller towns 
grow the Grand Rapids variety almost entirely. 
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