. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 22 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. LETTUCE. Throughout the trucking sections of the South the growing of lettuce in hot beds and cold frames has reached large proportions. Lettuce shipped during the winter and early spring usually proves very remu- nerative. Culture*—The quality of lettuce depends largely on its quick growth, and this can onl
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 22 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. LETTUCE. Throughout the trucking sections of the South the growing of lettuce in hot beds and cold frames has reached large proportions. Lettuce shipped during the winter and early spring usually proves very remu- nerative. Culture*—The quality of lettuce depends largely on its quick growth, and this can only be obtained by transplanting to rich, mallow soil, deeply worked and cultivating well. For early crop sow under glass in January or Febmary, and transplant in the s oring. For a succession, sow at intervals of three weeks until end of April. For autumn use, sow in July. For fall planting, sow the hardy varieties in September, and transplant when large enough. Protect with straw, leaves or litter, and they will stand the winter, and head up in the spring; or they can be transplanted to cold frames nine inches apart. Two crops can be grown under the game glass in one season. One ounce of seed will sow two hundred feet of drill, and produce about 1,500 plants, Insect Remedies.—Plant-lice sometimes interfere considerably with lettuce grown in hot-beds or greenhouse. The reme- dies are the application of tobacco dust to plants and soil or fumigation with tobacco. For the green lettuce worm the remedy i» pyrethrum mixed with not more than three times its bulk of flour and dusted on the plants while the dew is on. Xrisp=as-Ice. One of the most delici- ous table lettuces grown. For full description, see ISTew and Desirable Varieties, page 5. Per pkt. 10c.; oz. 20c; i lb. 60c. ^Wood's Cabbage. Whether for forc- ing in frames or growing in the open ground, no lettuce that we have - ever grown is equal to our Wood's Cab- bage. It makes a splendid, large, hard head, very hardy, and
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