PART If. 
THE UNDER-GLASS STAPLES. 
LETTUCE, CUCUMBER, 
RADISH, TOMATO. 
For the second part of our little book on the culture of 
winter vegetables we have selected four crops which are so 
largely grown, and grown in so many places, that they may 
be termed the leading under-glass staples. These four crops 
will be treated more in detail than those mentioned in Part 
III; albeit in some localities the things which in this book 
are treated as minor crops will loom up into primary import- 
ance, and will take their places as the principal money 
makers. ‘The four crops here brought forward must, how- 
ever, be recognized as the leaders in the eastern part of the 
United States at the present time. 
CHAPTER XI. 
LETTUCE. 
Lettuce must be regarded as the most important of all 
the under-glass crops, and it is now in demand during every 
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