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and pleasant, and furnishes a tender salad when most of the 

 Cos Lettuces become Litter and strong flavored. 



Bath Green This variety has much merit as a hardy, 



Cos. Mclnt. 



winter, green sort, and is nearly related to the 

 Brown Cos. It is, however, less brown on the outer leaves, 

 and while that has white seeds, the seeds of this variety are 

 black. Hence there are found, upon the catalogues of seeds- 

 men, Black-seeded Bath, or Brown Cos, and White-seeded 

 Bath, or Brown Cos ; the latter seeming to be the hardiest, 

 while the former appears to be the best. 



Brown Cos. This is one of the oldest of the Cos Lettuces, 

 TON" BKRKSHIRE and considered the hardiest of the class. The 



BROWN Cos. 



W M?BATH*Col T ~ head is of large size, pointed, not compact, and 



BEARFIELD Cos. 



jtoow**c<t* re( l u i res t t> e tied in order to obtain it in its 

 greatest perfection ; the leaves are of a copper-green color, 

 stiff and firm, toothed and blistered ; the seeds are white. 



The Brown Cos blanches white and tender, and is exceed- 

 ingly crisp and well flavored ; but the dark brownish color of 

 the exterior leaves is deemed an objection, and it is often 

 displaced by really inferior varieties. In weight and meas- 

 urement, it differs little from the Green Paris Cos. Exten- 

 sively cultivated and much esteemed in England. 



Gray Paris Head of the form of an inverted cone ; green, 

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with a grayish tone about the top ; compact, and 



forming well without tying. The exterior leaves are nu- 

 merous, deep-green, erect, firm, and prominently blistered. 

 The full diameter of the plant is nearly twelve inches, and 

 its weight about twenty ounces. The seeds are white. 



The Gray Paris Cos is brittle, and of tender texture, but 

 is considered inferior to the other Paris Cos sorts, and is 

 but little cultivated. 



