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moist weather, the plants attain a diameter of nearly ten 

 inches, and weigh from six to eight ounces ; but summer- 

 grown specimens are much smaller, rarely measuring more 

 than six or seven inches in diameter, or weighing above 

 three or four ounces. In warm, dry weather, it soon 

 runs to seed. 



This variety belongs to the division of the Ice Cabbage. 

 Trans. 



Silesian or Batavian Lettuces, and must not be 

 confounded with the White Cos. The leaves are of a light 

 shining green, blistered on the surface, much undulated and 

 slightly jagged on the edges, nearly erect, eight inches long, 

 and five or six inches broad ; the outer leaves spread a little 

 at the top, but grow close at the heart. It blanches without 

 tying up, and becomes white, crisp, and tender. 



The Ice Cabbage Lettuce comes into use with the White 

 Silesian, from which it diifers, as it also does from any other 

 of its class, in being much more curled, having a lucid, 

 sparkling surface (whence probably its name), and not 

 turning in so much at the heart. It lasts as long in crop as 

 the White Silesian. 



A large and excellent variety, but inferior to Imperial 



Head. 



the Versailles or the Ice Cabbage. Head large, TURKEY CAB- 

 BAGE. UN102T. 



regular, a little oblong, of a dull, pale green 

 color, and not compactly formed ; the outside leaves are 

 large, rounded, undulated or waved on the borders, thin in 

 texture, and of a soiled or tarnished light green color ; 

 diameter fourteen inches ; weight twelve to fifteen ounces ; 

 seeds white. 



This is a crisp and tender Lettuce, though sometimes 

 slightly bitter. It is not early, and soon shoots up to 

 seed ; but is quite hardy, and well adapted for winter 

 cultivation. 



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