. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LETTUCE soil and of the plant as di-y as possible, and by avoiding a too warm and too moist atmosphere. Sub-irrigation (see Irriijtition) is to be advised for Lettuce forcing. Of varieties, there are two general types
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. LETTUCE soil and of the plant as di-y as possible, and by avoiding a too warm and too moist atmosphere. Sub-irrigation (see Irriijtition) is to be advised for Lettuce forcing. Of varieties, there are two general types, âthe cabbage or heading sorts (Fig. 1266), and the loose sorts (Fig. ^â ""^ 1265. Lettuce plant collapsed with the rot. 1267). The latter are more used because more easily grown, but the former are considered to be the finer. In 1885, Goff reduced the kinds of Lettuce to 87 va- rieties (4th Rep. N. Y. Exp. Sta.), throwing them into three general groups: (1) leaves roundish orbutslightly oblong, spreading rather than upright; (2) leaves ob- long, tending to grow upright ; (3) leaves pinnately lobed. These categories were divided into subtribes on minor leaf-characters. In 1889 (Annals Hort.) 119 names of Lettuces were catalogued by North American seeds- men. Lettuce has been in cultivation for over 2,000 years. L_ H. B. Lettuce Out-op-Doors.âWhile Lettuce seems never more enioyable than when it comes from the greenhouse during the colder parts of the year, yet it is acceptable for salad purposes and is in good demand the entire year. In open ground, at the North, we may have it in all its perfection from June until snow flies again in the fall. Usually it is much less of a knack, however, to have it in the earlier part of the season and up to August, than in the torrid weather of August and early fall. For early market we start the plants in the green- house during February, and prick them out in flats or sunken thumb-pots filled with rich, fibrous loam, and after
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