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The Garrett Park lettuce house which Mr. Galloway and Mr. Dorsett built for their first experiments. This was in 1893, before the section had any greenhouse of its own.

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Unknown. “The Garrett Park lettuce house which Mr. Galloway and Mr. Dorsett built for their first experiments. This was in 1893, before the section had any greenhouse of its own..” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed November 3, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/268.