Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1913 — White Lettuce and Qreen Cabbage. [ARTICLE]

White Lettuce and Qreen Cabbage.

“There is a curious difference,” says a gentleman of St Louis who spent a large part of the year In England, “between the English and ourselves in the way of growing cabbage and lettuce for the table. With us the oabb&ge is encouraged to form a head, and when the leaves Bhow a disposition to spread the gardeners sometimes tie a string around the clump to make the leaves grow together. In England, on the other hand, the efforts of the growers are directed toward keeping cabbage green, arid they poll the. leaves apart so as to expose all portions to the light and give them a dark, rich color., “We like our lettuce green, but the English want theirs headed up and blanched, so as to have it as white as our cabbage, in other words, they simply reverse our practice, and Instead of white cabbage and green lettuce they like green cabbage and white lettuce. Of course it is only a matter of taste, but still the difference is rather carious."