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Europe's many tongues and 
consequent misunderstandings 
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Head Lettuce in Summer 
How can we have head lettuce in our 
farm gardens right through the Summer? 
Three things are essentiiil to accomplish 
this result; selecting the right varietie.s, 
suitable prei)!iriitiou of the .soil, and 
proper cultivation. 
VAUiKTift:s.—None of the kinds used for 
forcing' is suitable for midsummer grow¬ 
ing in an upland garden. Big Bexston, 
so valuable to the niuckland grower, calls 
for more moisture and fertilitj' tlmn the 
average garden can supply. May King 
and Golden Queen make nice heads in 
the cold frame, or transplanted from the 
hotbed to the garden in early Spring, hut 
the.v are valuele.ss for mid-season. Avoid 
the lettuces recommended for eiirly forc¬ 
ing. In the open ground they always run 
up to seed quickly in Summer. Improved 
Hamson is one of the old standard Sum¬ 
mer lettuces that is generidly catalogued. 
With this its a starting i»()int. and with 
lettuce seed at five cents a jiacket, it will 
success. For one thing it enabled us to 
add fine muskmelons to our garden crops. 
CtTi.TiVATiox.—A light soil stuffed full' 
of fine nmnure will hold moisture like a 
sponge, though an inch or two^of the 
surface may .seem very dry. The wheel- 
lux; will keep such a bed- in goixl condi¬ 
tion : wliile a heavier soil needs wide 
rows and horse cultivation to hold enough 
moisture to carry the crops through mid¬ 
summer droughts. Sow the lettuce seed, 
for wheel-lux'ing, in rows 14-115 inches 
apart. For Summer I like to drop four 
or five seeds in ii place, about 8-10 inches 
apart in the row. The spaces between 
are filled with seeds of the little Scarlet 
Forcing radish, sowed .so'thinly that it 
will not need thinning. The radish comes 
nj) quickly and surely, and marks the 
row. Any not used .are easily and (luiek- 
ly hoed out. Thin the lettuce to one plant 
in !i pl.ace while the plants are still 
snmll. If left to get big enough to use 
A Serpentine Cauliflower 
pity to try to find one best iidaptcd to 
your own conditions. Try the kinds that 
itre recommended by leading seedsmen for 
liot wciitlier. 
Tiik Soil. —Ixltuce needs a loose, por¬ 
ous soil. Some years ago one of the ex¬ 
periment stiitions iiivostigiited tlu‘ condi- 
fions in certiiin districts noted for fine 
lettuce. It was found tluit it wais not the 
Iiresencc or Jimount of plant food th.at 
was the controlling factor, hut the tex¬ 
ture of the soil. 'This shows the im- 
I)(>rtaiU‘e of first getting the soil into gcxxl 
physical condition. If one is so forfu- 
iiafe as to have ji light, sand.y soil, the 
addition of enough stable manure wall 
make a lettuce bed on which some of the 
hciit-resisting kinds of head lettuce will 
niiiture fiiir lumds in the mifidle of iiu 
ordinary Summer. Several giirdens with 
hciiv.v soil liave fiilleii to my lot iit dif- 
b'rent times, ami various methods luive 
been tried out fo m.'ike over the garden. 
While the free u.se of nmnure will suf¬ 
ficiently ameliorate a (juite heavy soil, so 
that it w'ill be satisfactory for most gar¬ 
den crops, I have found it easiest to pre¬ 
pare a special bed for radishes iuid let¬ 
tuce. Tn my present hxMtion I bav(‘ 30 
lieople to supply wath vegetaibles in Sum¬ 
mer, with a daily call for lettuce. It has 
been neces.sary, heretofore, to use a cold 
frame, with the bother of shading and 
wiiteriiig, to g(‘t through lln* most trying 
jiart of the Summer. 'I'liis Spring I am 
having ii strip tm one side of a gardiai. 
that is a heavj' loam, covenxl witli sand 
to a depth of six indies, 'fo this will be 
added two inches of rotten manure. 'This 
strip will he harrowed, but not jilowed, 
and will he planted for wheel-hoeing. 
For the average fiuniiy a strip six feet 
wide by 2,5-.50 feet long will be found 
ample, if the gardener does not forget to 
make the news-sary successive sowings. 
Coal ashes are satisfactory when worked 
into a heavy soil in suflicient (luantity, 
hut make an unsightly garden if not 
sci'i'ened. I do not think they w'ould 
make a good ground cover, as the sand 
does. Tn one case I liauled light soil 
fiom a nearby hill to make over one cor¬ 
nel* of a clay garden, and it was a great 
before thinning the jilants that are left 
W'ill not head afterward. Neither will 
jdants that liave been choked witli weeds 
recover .so as to Iiead in the trying 
W'eather of midsummer. Two weeks is 
aibout as long as one can generally get 
good results from a single sowing of let¬ 
tuce in the oiien ground in mid-season. 
So, if at all po.sslble, a little sowing 
should be made every two weeks. With 
a bed prejiared as outlined above, a very 
little time given it once a week will in¬ 
sure a steady siqiply of radi.slies and let¬ 
tuce throughout the Summer months. 
New York. gko. ak.vold. 
A Serpentine Cauliflower 
The iiicture on this page shows a very 
curious grow'tli on a head of cauliflower. 
'Fliis cut is taken from the “Guide to Na¬ 
ture” whicli states that tlie iiliotograpU 
<*ame from .Terii.salem, feeing .sent fey As.sad 
Kliadder, a dragoman who led a Ciimp- 
ing party through the Iloiy Tmnd. lie 
calls it a serpentine .growth, and it cer¬ 
tainly does re.semble a .snake. During the 
year some very curious growths of this 
sort in vegetables and fruit come to us, 
found by .sharp-eyed observers on the gar¬ 
den or farm. It 'is an interesting thing 
to ket'i) an eye open for these things, for 
while they have very little value coni- 
niercially the.v make a pleasant search 
through the season. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
(Continued from page ,3.34) 
in the sun. They .should he cov- 
ei*ed wdien there is danger of freez¬ 
ing. With this treatment the sprouts 
will start strongly and make broad and 
thick stubs very much unlike the long, 
sickly-Iooking sprouts w'hich come out In 
the dark cellar. As for cutting—this 
year I shall cut so that esich piece has 
one good .strong eye with as much “meat” 
as possible with it. Be sure to sprout a 
few tulxu-s ahead, iind see whore the 
strong buds are located. 3'liis will en¬ 
able you to cut so that the “eyes” will 
have sight and not he “blind.” Now we 
can go ahead next week and talk .soil and 
]»lanting. ii. vv. c. 
