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LETTUCE. 
Seeds of ten varieties of lettuce were planted in the garden on soil 
prepared as for onions. ‘The dates of planting, vegetation, etc., were 
as follows : 

VARIETY. | Planted. |Vegetat’d.| Days.| Bloomed. | Days.| Seed ripe.| Days. 
Boston Curled, . . . | April18 | May 2] 14 | July 28 | 101 | Aug. 30 134 
TIGHSOM, sie. cere Oe April 18 | May 2] 14 | July 19] 92 | Sept. 4 139 
Allthe Year Round, . | April 18 | May 2/ 14 |} July 28] 101 | Sept. 6 141 
Curled Simpson, . . April 18:7 May (ei i 180s iy ete aie Sept. 6 141 
Ice Drumhead, . . . | April18| May 2| 14 | July 25 | 98 | Sept. 4 139 
White Cabbage, . . April 18 | May 2] 14 | July 24] 97 | Sept. 20 155 
Brown Dutch, soa OVS April, d8, jp Maya: Sah cl4 bane ae ses Sept. 4 139 
New Orleans Green Cab- 
|p 0d Eee pimregry ef April 18 | May 14-18 | July 25 }--98: | Sept. 20 155 
White Cos, .0 25. 62s.) May ».6 | May: 19), 13.4. July 28.4 983) | Septas 123 
Early Tennis Ball,. . May 6] May 19] 18 | July 28] 83 | Sept. 6 128 

The New Orleans Green Cabbage and the White Cabbage varieties 
were very similar and are possibly identical. Seed stalks appeared 
slightly earlier on the latter and it vegetated one day later, but no 
further difference was discernible. The Brown Dutch, Curled Simp- 
son and Hanson were noted as possessing superior flavor. 
A few seeds of the Curled Simpson and White Cabbage varieties 
were also planted in the hot bed April 18, which vegetated April 21, 
and the plants were transplanted to the garden May 2 and 3. These 
were not, however, fit for use earlier than the same varieties planted 
in the open ground; the shock of transplanting seeming to balance 
the earliness gained by forcing. Having plenty of room they developed 
into enormous heads, sometimes a foot in diameter, the inner leaves 
of which were blanched and continued sweet and tender a long time. 
No especial difference was noticed in the earliness of the varieties, 
with the exception of the last two named, all being fit for use about 
June 10, though the length of time that the various sorts continued 
edible varied considerably. Thus, flower stalks appeared on the Bos- 
ton Curled and Hanson June 30, and on the Ice Drumhead and White 
Cabbage July 5, on the Tennis Ball (planted May 6) July 6, and on 
the other varieties later, the dates not noted. 
CELERY. 
Seeds of Boson Market and Turner’s Incomparable Dwarf White 
Celery were planted in the hot-bed April 13, the temperature of the 
soil being 92°. These vegetated April 24; the plants were pricked out 
June 1, and transplanted in the garden July 5, in trenches one foot 
deep, in the bottom of which was spaded in a liberal quantity of barn- 
yard manure. The plants grew well during the summer, but in Sep- 
tember were attacked by the celery worm, the larva of Papilio Asterias, 
one of our most beautiful butterflies which deposits its egg on the 
celery, parsnip and other umbelliferous plants during July and August. 
They also suffered somewhat from a sort of blight that attacked a 
