. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 20 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Ya. LETTUCE. Lettuce makes one of the most desirable, refreshing vegetables at nearly all seasons of the year. The growing of Lettuce in hot-beds and cold frames for shipment during the winter and early spring has increased to a very large extent throughout the Southern trucking sections, and it has hitherto proved
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 20 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Ya. LETTUCE. Lettuce makes one of the most desirable, refreshing vegetables at nearly all seasons of the year. The growing of Lettuce in hot-beds and cold frames for shipment during the winter and early spring has increased to a very large extent throughout the Southern trucking sections, and it has hitherto proved a most profitable crop. Our strains-of Lettuce are the very best. We give below extract from letter from one of our customers who is one of the largest growers of this crop in the South, as to the high quality and profitable result from sowing our seeds. Edgecombe Co., N. C, April 7, 1899.—We have had fine success with your Big Boston Lettuce. We have sold $3,100, net, worth of Big Boston to date, with about 250 barrels of California Cream Butter on hand, very large and thrifty looking, now heading. Tours very truly, W. A. Thigpex & Beo. Culture.—The quality of lettuce depend? largely on its quick growth, and this can only be obtained by transplanting to rich, mellow soil, deeply worked and cultivating well. For early crop, sow under glass in January or Febmary, and transplant in the spring, 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. Pro+ect 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 same 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 o
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