... the limits of this magazine, as well as to propose for oneself a task of rather discouraging dimensions. In keeping with the implied suggestion of the above statements, only three subjects will be treated, viz., lettuce and dewberry culture, and turpentine distillation from lightwood. The growing of lettuce...

... to the profitable truck farming in Tidewater Virginia, to the won­ derful accounts of the raising of lettuce at Fayetteville in North Carolina, and to the extracting of turpentine from the stumps and lightwood of the old pine forests of North Carolina. It is evident that he had in mind, when citing...

... that it may seem a parody of its own virtues. While action and ritual can be rendered by dietetic art, person or process cannot; for this reason Catherine (as Rinaldi understands) becomes a leaf of lettuce nibbled by a man on a mountain top where the only sound he hears is the sound of his own teeth...

...- ticularly within the context of the marketplace. He cites the example of a Parisian market-stall vendor who occasionally shocked his (mostly) female customers with his vegetable double entendres. ‘‘It went from ‘mounds’ of lettuce...

... there are subtle nuances of light and color, in the grayness through which plod the stalwart horses drawing the produce carts toward Les Halles, carts carrying tons of crisp lettuce, lentils, mushrooms, berries, and the lowly potato which is not lowly in the hands of a conscientious jour­ neyman-chef. To Les...

... propagated as a synthetic fuel. There are demonstrations of trickle irrigation technology, nutriculture, and growing food in outer space: to simulate gravity, they spin lettuce in a mesh cylinder placed around a broad-spectrum fluorescent tube. In truth, the family farm was far more than the site of food...

... of a great ocean liner, frequently called a floating city. The Normandie sailed on its maiden voyage with 60,000 eggs, 4,000 chickens, and as many turkeys, 8,000 ducks, 20,000 kilos of potatoes, 10,000 kilos of beef, 6,000 kilos of fish, 11,000 kilos of fresh vegetables, 10,000 lettuces and 6,000...

... and corner of the place is invested by association with a triple interest. Tell me when you plant the peas, when the first radishes and lettuce are ready for the table, when the strawberries begin to ripen, the number of the young chickens, &c., &c.; all these little things interest me, because they carry me...

... tion caused him to leave the family in Ohio. In a letter to his nine year old daughter, written a month before the secession of Louisiana, Sherman said: In the back yard I have prepared for a small garden, but the soil is poor and will not produce much, except early peas, lettuce and sweet potatoes...

... clippings again, and several rows of young shoots brussels sprouts, broccoli, and pretty young lettuces, mostly are now almost entirely hidden from the diminished autumn sunlight. The gap­ ing holes in the mossy surface, like Flanders in wartime, reveal some weeds beginning to take root under the canopy...

... Waters : Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, . . . . . . pink turf, . . . Passions there, wars, pursuits, tribes, sight in those ocean- depths, . . . And On the Beach at Night Alone chants the same global unity as Rondeau...

.... RAY What about the fat lady that slipped on the lettuce? DENISE I don’t remember saying anything about her. RAY You said that kind of litigation clogs the courts, and the taxpayers are footing the bill. Footing...