122 THE AMATEURS’ GUIDE 
deep, and of a sufficient distance apart to admit of a small hoe. 
Keep the ground clean and loose around the plants, and trans- 
plant the middle of summer, in good ground, in rows twelve 
inches apart, and the plants five or six inches distant from each 
other. After the plants have taken root, they should be fre- 
quently hoed and kept free from weeds. When desired to have 
Leeks blanched, they should be planted in drills, three or four 
inches deep. As the plants grow, draw up to their sides the 
earth which came out of the drills. This should be repeated at 
W@tervals until each plant has attained a sufficient size for use. 
Leeks will stand the winter without protection, but, as a provision 
against hard frost, some should be taken up and packed in earth 
or sand, in some dry place, for winter use. Two or three plants 
which have stood the winter should be left to produce seed, which 
will ripen early in autumn. One ounce of seed will be sufficient 
for a bed four feet wide and twelve feet long. é 
LETTUCE. 
1. Early Curled, or Cut Salad. 5. Philadelphia Cabbage. 
2. Early Cabbage, 6. Curled India, or Ice. 
Butter Lettuce. 7. White Cos. 
3. Brown Dutch. 8. Green Cos. 
4, Royal Cabbage, 9. Palestine. 
Drumhead.— Imperial. 
Grand Admiral. 
The kinds enumerated are perhaps more numerous than need 
be cultivated, and the same variety has frequently so many local 
names, it is difficult to designate them. No. 1 is used asa small 
salad, and should be sown very thickly, on a smooth surface, early 
in the spring. Nos. 2 and 3 are good sorts, of about equal merit. 
Nos. 4 and 5 succeed Nos. 2 and 3, and produce large firm heads. 
No. 6 is a valuable variety, and stands the heat well. Nos. 7 and 
8 are very crisp and tender, but soon shoot to seed. To have fine 
head Lettuce, the seed should be sown, in seed-bed, from the first 
to the middle of autumn. Protect the plants by a cold frame, or 
with litter, as they stand in the ground, and transplant early in 
