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young plants should not be allowed to stand too 
thickly; they should be at least an inch apart in the 
seed bed, or be transplanted to that distance when 
half an inch high. When the cabbage is set out, one 
or two lettuce plants may be set between each pair of 
cabbages in the row, according to the distance the 
cabbages are apart. There must be space enough be¬ 
tween the plants to give the soil a good stirring with 
the hoe around each plant, as thorough cultivation 
is essential to the best development of both cabbage 
and lettuce. A second lot of seed should be planted 
when the tomatoes and egg plants are sown; these 
can be set out in the garden as soon as they are large 
enough to handle. The third sowing should be made 
in the open garden when the first planting is done, 
and the young seedlings should be transplanted as 
soon as the plants 
are large enough 
and before they 
begin to be crowded 
in the row, as this 
last sowing will not 
form heads without 
it receives the best 
of care. These three 
sowings are about 
all that can be de¬ 
pended upon to 
make hard heads, 
unless it can be planted in some rich, shady corner, 
and carefully nursed with the watering pot. 
About the first or middle of May a sowing should 
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PERPETUAL LETTUCE. 
