Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1907 — Miracle Lettuce. [ARTICLE]

Miracle Lettuce.

“Yes,” said a florist, “I can work miracles in my business. For Instance, I can grow you lettuce while you wait — sweet, crisp lettuce that you may eat for your dinner with the broiled spring chicken. “I do it in this way. I take a handful of lettuce seeds that have been soaked overnight in alcohol, aud I plant them in a box containing three indies of loam and quicklime. I water this soil, and in ten minutes the seeds burst. In twenty minutes two tiny leaves push through the earth. The leaves grow and multiply. In an hour they are as big as half dollars. Then you may pluck and eat them. They are delicious —a fairy salad. “Sometimes, when I give a dinner party, I have one of these little prepared lettuce beds in the center of the table. The guests see the lettuce grow, and when the time comes for the salad course, there is their salad blooming before them, nil ready for them to pluck.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.