XVIII 



THE SAIiAD GAEDEN 



THE list of plants available for salads 

 has increased with our ingenuity in 

 discovering the resources of the kitch- 

 en garden. Though the lettuce is stiU the chief 

 salad plant grown, there are other salad plants 

 that deserve attention, and wiU be very wel- 

 come upon those tables that have given them- 

 selves up to the monotony of one sort of salad, 

 a limitation one does not find in foreign coun- 

 tries, where a dinner without the salad is not 

 considered dinner at all. However, even in the 

 matter of the lettuce there are so many varie- 

 ties that some consideration of them will be 

 of interest here. 



Lettuce: There are three main divisions of 

 lettuces. The "Cos" varieties, which are of 

 upright growth with hard leaf of coarse veins 

 and coarse midrib (taking their name from 



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