The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-10-25
Lettuce.

1 uC IOIlS COOI WANDOt Vi Il IOrlQa IS
favorable to the growth of this, were
it not that this same nice cool season
is also the "dry season." In TACT this
is the great drawback to gardening
here. Lack of richness in soil is more
easily supplied thanlack of moisture,
| for very little of the lands are SO 10.
Gated that they can be cheaply irri-
gated. Windmllls or steam pumps
and tanks will be found TO be very
expensive things. sOur lettuce plant,
ed in the general garden Dec. 10Th
with some fertilizer in drill, we'll
stirred in, grew slow. By Jan. 3Oth
it was doing bett"r aud was tender
and nice but not large enough. On
Jan. 25th we planted our third lot,
putting one quart of M4pes' to twelve
feet Of drill and made the note that it
must "grow or bust" By Feb. 18th
it hadn't grown much neither would
it bust" However, considering the
drouthy winter we could not expect
lettuce to be success.
CURLED CRE6S,
This is very uice tor relish.
Should be sown in succession Tor a
month. We planted ours on Dec.
Nth, using a lilu{ SHAPES" in the
. \ and had a LITTLE to use by Jan.
loCh but it grew slpwly.
KOHL RABI.
l had grown a white variety of
this in Colorado Sears ago, where |
had water and stab.e manure to force
s;'ey s,;',4.eyss 8 tender groHsh. They attained
a.+' 4 ~ tssss EsPiay Hence but Il
able results s q " iss!ss Is 9. sor
in the ground onEDecember lst, put
ting some "Mapef" in the drill. Soon
we noted that "dly weather seems to
stunt the plants" At last, on May
Goth over Eve months after planting,
we were able to 4 ather "mess" tor
a small family II I'm twenty feet OF
row and to our 81 prise found it ten
der and nice. 1t was of purple va
riety and this quslity of retaining it's
tenderness till Iaye In the spring en>
conrages US TO try it again, even
though the yield was not what we
had hoped for. For two months
previous to gathering the leaves had
been covered with lice on the under
side, where they are not very get at
able. The smaller plants. which
seemed stunted, by June 9th took on
new grown on account OF good
rams and put on a tender growth OF
stalk above the toughened part and
by July 10Th were IN good condition
TO use.
This is another vegetable which we
were led to believe would do well
without tertiIizing. They treated us
much as the carrots did disgusting us
at first and afterwards encouraging
US 10 plant a greater breadth neGt
winter. An experiment oyer buried
COW pea vines did not result favor
ably but we hope TO repeat it, tor
certainly the same fertilizer which
will produce, cabbages and turnlps
ought TO produce beets. Ours were
planted Dec. LIST, variety OF white
sugar Ueet. with some 'Mapes" IN
the drill. The grasshoppers or crick
cts seemed specially fond OF these,
cutting many leaves off by night. BY
May Atm we had some To use and "
our surprise found them tender and
nice.
ONIONS.
"Black seed" Jailed TO germnate
and thus We were cheated out OF auy
experience with this crop III this cli'
mate and Ae do not care to rehash
experience in other States which
would DO no one any good here.
However we nave procured plants
(ior tnus tar they don't form "DnIbs')
OF variety Ike The English Multi-
pller or Potato onion. We set tnem
out iu July and They have continued
to grow ever since. Every couple OF
months we look them over and any
one that has increased 10 Two to tour
aud naturally divided itself some-