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crispy quality of the head. Some of the varieties have thus 

 been brought to a remarkable degree of perfection, the 

 plants producing heads with as much certainty, and nearly 

 as well proportioned and solid, as those of the Common 

 Cabbage. 



They are generally divided into two classes, viz., Cab- 

 bage Lettuces and Cos Lettuces. 



Cabbage Lettuces. 

 Brown Dutch. Head of medium size, rather long and loose ; 



icKjSKKDi t ^ e i eaves? which coil or roll back a little on 

 the borders about the top of the head, are yellowish-green, 

 washed or stained with brownish-red ; the surplus leaves are 

 large, round, waved, green, washed with bronze-red, and 

 coarsely, but not prominently, blistered ; diameter twelve to 

 fourteen inches ; weight about eight ounces. 



This Lettuce cabbages readily, forms a good-sized head, 

 is tender, of good quality, hardy, and tolerably early. It 

 does not, however, retain its head well in dry and warm 

 weather ; and, as it is little affected by cold, seems best 

 adapted to winter or very early culture. It resembles the 

 Yellow-seeded Brown Dutch, but is not so early, and the 

 bead is looser and larger. 



Brown Sile- Head green, tinted with brown, remarkably 

 sian or Mar- 

 seilles Cab- large, not compactly, but regularly, formed ; 

 bage. Vil. 

 BKOWNBATA- ribs and nerves of the leaves large and prom- 



VIAN. ^ . 



inent ; the leaves disconnected with the head are 

 large, bronze-green, coarsely blistered, and frilled and curled 

 on the margin. The diameter of a well-grown plant is about 

 eighteen inches, and its weight twenty-eight ounces. The 

 seeds are white. 



This Lettuce, though somewhat hard, is brittle and mild- 

 flavored, but is better when cooked than when served in its 



