. 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. Gardening. 1265. Lettuce plant collapsed with the rot. 12G7). 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 (Itn Rep. N. Y. Exp. Sta.), throwing them into three general groups: (1) leaves roundish orbutslightl
. 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. Gardening. 1265. Lettuce plant collapsed with the rot. 12G7). 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 (Itn 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 y^^^^- L. H. B. Lettuce Out-of-Doors.—While Lettuce seems never more enjoyable 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 filled with rich, fibrous loam, and after thoroughly hardening them by exposure for a week or more in a coldframe, we take the plants up, with a chunk of soil, and plant them out in very rich, well- prepared loam outdoors, just as soon as the weather will permit. Tennisball and its various strains and selections, Boston Market, etc., are good for this pur- pose. The rows may be made a foot apart, and the plants set 6 or 8 inches apart
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