72 LETTUCE 



LETTUCE 



LAITUE. Lactuca saliva crispa. 

 VARIETIES. 



Large Green Head. 

 Dutch, or Cabbage. 

 Tennis Ball, or Rose. 

 Madeira, or Passion. 

 Large Green Curled. 

 Loco Foco. 



Early Silesia. 

 Imperial, or Sugar Loaf. 

 Pale Green, or Butter. 

 Grand Admiral. 

 Large Summer Silesia. 

 Paris Loaf Coss. 



IT would be easy to furnish a more extensive catalogue of 

 Lettuce, as the varieties are numerous ; but as this is one of 

 those kinds of vegetables that can only be raised in perfec 

 lion during mild and temperate weather, it is needless foi 

 the gardener to plant any in the open ground, but such as 

 have been tested, and found to stand a tolerable degree of 

 warm weather, which generally prevails in May and June, 

 e,nd consequently cuts short the salad season. Those who 

 nave been accustomed to raise head Lettuce in any quantity, 

 know the trouble of preparing the ground and planting, and 

 the loss they would sustain if several thousand plants should 

 run to seed just as they appeared to be perfecting for market. 

 As this is often the case, even with the very best attention, I 

 would caution gardeners to test such plants as they are not 

 acquainted with, before they set out any quantity with a view 

 to their heading.* 



The six varieties inserted in the first column of our cata- 



* It may be necessary here to remind the gardener, that MOTSTURE is the 

 most essential nutriment of Lettuce, and that the very best varieties may 

 run to seed without forming heads, in the event of extreme warm weather. 

 Those who put off the sowing of seed until May and June, instead of 

 sowing it in March and A,pril, as directed, may procure head Lettuce from 

 some of their strongest plants, by transplanting them into rich ground as 

 soon as they are an inch or two in height, and the remainder, if left thin in 

 the beds, may produce small heads, by stirring the earth around them with 

 a small hoe, or weeding hook ; these are as good for family use as larger 

 heads, and those persons who are fond of Lettuce may raise such through- 

 out the summer ; but market gardeners seldom attempt it, unless they 

 have a tract of moist, loamy soil, peculiarly adapted to the growth of head 

 Lettuce, in any thing like a propitious season. 



