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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners 
Lettuce. 
Cultivation. — Of Lettuces, wo give particular attcutiou to the growth and selection of two varieties, viz., Daniels’ Giant 
•Cos and a capital stock of Daniels’ Continuity. The former is the largest Lettuce grown, and very fine for exhibition, being 
at the same time tender and crisp, and requires no tying. The best Cabbage Lettuce is Daniels’ Continuity, which will bo found 
invaluable for Summer use, as it will withstand dry seasons, and continue fit for use after all other kinds have run to seed. 
Lettuces are especially partial to an open, doeply worked, and enriched soil, and to an abundant supply of moisture throughout 
their whole growth. Not only is this necessary to insure a free growth apart from all tendencies to “bolt” or run to seed; 
tut so also is it to ensure such an amount of crispness and natural succulency as alone constitute the higher merits of this important 
salad plant. Sowings should be made upon a slight bottom-heat, or in boxes, &c., early in February. Make other sowings to 
follow these during the mouth of March and again early in April. Sow this time upon warm sunny sites, and transplant a portion of 
the produce of each sowing ouly, leaving a sufficient number in the seed beds, and properly thinned, to ensure a supply thereon. 
For permanent Summer crops sow again during May and June, and this time upon cool, open, airy quarters. Sow the seed in 
drill rows, and so soon as the seedlings are large enough don’t transplant them at this date, but thin out and throw away all but 
the strongest plants. Too much or too frequent waterings cannot be given them during tile hot and arid Summer months. 
Make a somewhat large sowing or two during the month of July; this for permanent Autumn and Winter uses. The seedlings 
may be transplanted when the produce of these sowings are thinned out, as by so doing they succeed those which have been 
permitted to stand. Other sowings should again be made on or about August 11th and 25th, September 5th and 20th, which are 
likewise to be thinned out and transplanted as necessary for Winter and early Spring supply. Cabbage Lettuces sow in May and 
August. 
Price per packet 6d. ; per oz. Is. 6d. 
Daniels’ Continuity 
(or Perpetual). 
THE BEST CABBAGE LETTUCE 
IN THE WORLD. 
A bed sown or planted in Spring will 
keep up a supply of Salad throughout 
the Summer. 
No matter how hot and dry the season 
they will continue to maintain firm heads 
long aftor every other kind has run to seed 
or gone to decay. One sowing is equal to 
three or four ol' any other variety. 
Whatever we have claimed in regard 
to its most excellent qualities has been 
more fully borne out in all these respects 
by the many testimonials we are continu- 
ally receiving from our customers. 
From TUB GARDENER'S CHRONICLE, 
September 5th, 1891. 
“Daniels’ ‘Continuity’ Cabbage 
Lettuce.— I sowed a row of this Lettuce in 
the Spring, at the same time as Paris Cos, and 
am very pleased with it. It fully merits the 
name of Continuity ; it. came in early, and is 
as good now, in the middle of August, from one 
sowing as it was at first, the Paris Cos and the 
ordinary Cabbage variety have both bolted long 
ago, but this does not seem to get any more 
advanced in .that direction at present. It is a 
brown Lettuce of good flavour, and it grows 
to a fair size. Ours is a heavy soil, and any 
Lettuce that, shows no disposition to go to seed 
is an acquisition. The row was thinned, and 
those that were transplanted at that time have 
turned out as well as the ones that were left.” — 
W. J. S. 
EVIDENCE OF QUALITY. 
“I sowed a packet of your Continuity 
Lettuce oil May 16th, part of them were 
•cut when ready, the remainder were left 
until now (September 21st), and not one of 
-them have run to seed. It is the most useful 
<Jabbage Lettuce I have yet grown.”— Mr. 
3?. JONES, Gardener to His Grace The 
Duke of Buccleucli. 
“I cannot say too much of the excellent 
(qualities of your Continuity Lettuce. 
I sowed it with several other sorts the end 
of March, Continuity came in first, and I 
had good samples of it for more than a 
month after the others were all over. No 
gardener that, has to keep up a continuous 
supply ought to be without it. I shall look 
on this variety ns my chief Cabbage Lettuce 
in future.”— Mr. A. McMILLAN, 
Oardener to Lady Bateman, Oakley Park. 
“ I think I have given your Continuity 
Lettuce a very fair test. I find it the 
least likely to run to seed of any that I have 
grown, especially in a warm frame in the 
winter, where most others run to seed. I 
consider it a solid and splendid Lettuce ” — 
Mr. H. ISAAC COUSENS. Gardener 
to F. S. II. Dyer, Esq., Stourbridge. 
CONTINUITY LETTUCE CUT OPEN. ( From n Photograph.) 
