. Dreer's Open-air vegetables. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. DREER'S open-air VEGETABI^ES. 59 ber, and protected with a little straw, they will (in most places) go through the winter safely, and be available for transplanting in the earliest spring. Or they may be headed in their winter quarters, as the removal of the light coat of straw and the use of the hoe will encourage a quick growth. There is no dividing line between the winter and sum- mer cultivation of lettuce, and the reader is referred to the little book recently issued by this house entitled Vege- tables Under Glass for
. Dreer's Open-air vegetables. Vegetable gardening. [from old catalog]. DREER'S open-air VEGETABI^ES. 59 ber, and protected with a little straw, they will (in most places) go through the winter safely, and be available for transplanting in the earliest spring. Or they may be headed in their winter quarters, as the removal of the light coat of straw and the use of the hoe will encourage a quick growth. There is no dividing line between the winter and sum- mer cultivation of lettuce, and the reader is referred to the little book recently issued by this house entitled Vege- tables Under Glass for a description of cold-weather methods. The winter forcing of lettuce is now an industry of wide importance, in which much capital is invested. The warm-weather varieties of lettuce (some of which are used for winter forcing) are numerous. Many newly- named old friends are oflfered to the public every year. Some of these '' novelties'' are real horticultural acquisitions, being genuine improvements of old types ; others are merely old wine in new bottles—and the buyers pay well for the bottles. The standard open-air sorts in- clude Silver Ball, Black-seeded Simpson, Salamander, Dreer's Improved Hanson (on the mar- ket over twenty years), and Yel- low-seeded Butter. Sensation, a recent "novelty," is much like Salamander; and Cham- pion Spring and Summer is the same as Yellow-seeded Butter. All are good, reliable types. The Cos type of lettuce is shown in the engraving. Its shape is quite peculiar. There are other novel lettuce shapes to be found pictured in the catalogues of the seedsmen. Most of them have The Cos Type of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dreer, Henry A. [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, H. A. Dreer
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