I20 Home Vegetable Gardening 



soil should be of the richest and deepest, and well 

 dressed with lime. 



Lettuce is grown with advantage between the 

 rows of early cabbage, and after both are harvested 

 the ground is used for celery. The early varieties 

 may be set as closely as eighteen inches in the row, 

 and twenty-four between rows. The lettuce is taken 

 out before the row is needed. 



The late crop is started in the outside seed-bed 

 about June ist to 15th. It will help give better 

 plants to cut back the tops once or twice during 

 growth, and an occasional good soaking in dry 

 weather w^ll prove very beneficial. They are set 

 in the field during July, and as it often is very dry 

 at this time, those extra precautions mentioned in 

 directions for setting out plants, in the preceding 

 chapter, should be taken. If the newly set plants 

 are dusted with wood ashes, it w^ill be a wise pre- 

 caution against insect pests. 



Cauliflower: — The cauliflower is easily the queen 

 of the cabbage group : also it is the most difficult 

 to raise, (i) It is the most tender and should not 

 be set out quite so early. (2) It is even a ranker 

 feeder than the cabbage, and just before heading up 

 will be greatly improved by applications of liquid 

 manure. (3) It must have water, and unless the 

 soil is a naturally damp one, irrigation, either by 

 turning the hose on between the rows, or directly 



