160 LETTUCE. 



distance between the rows two feet. This arrange- 

 ment will give from fifteen thousand to seventeen 

 thousand heads of Lettuce to an acre. The Lettuce 

 crop will be ready for market and sold before the 

 Cabbages require all the room. When there are 

 fifteen thousand planted on good ground, twelve 

 thousand of them will be marketable and they will 

 bring from seven dollars and fifty cents to ten dollars 

 per thousand heads. 



The seed for this early crop is sown in the Fall, 

 frojn the 5th to the 10th of September, in the open 

 ground. About the middle of October, we trans- 

 plant into cold frames, putting six or eight hundred 

 plants to a sash of 3x6. The winter treatment is 

 similar to that recommended for keeping Cabbage 

 plants. During cold weather, the beds are covered 

 with gashes, giving air in very mild or warm weather. 



For family use, a small qiiantity of seed may be 

 sown at the same date. A rough structure of boards 

 may be fixed for protecting the plants during the 

 Winter ; or if the seed is sown in a sheltered spot in 

 the garden and mulched before cold weather sets in, 

 with salt hay or other litter, the plants will keep 

 fresh until Spring, when they can be transplanted. 



Again, for the kitchen-garden, a small paper of 

 seed, sown in a hot-bed, about the first of March, 

 will give plants large enough to set out in the open 

 ground in the latter part of April. To have a suc- 

 cession of plantings, more seed can be sown in the 

 open ground in April and transplanted to the gar- 

 den ; the Lettuce will come to maturity in six weeks 

 from the time of planting. 



