CABBAGE LETTUCE 



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Earliest Dwarf Green Lettuce. A pretty little green variety, 

 very thick-set and distinct, although evidently not far removed 



from the Tom Thumb Lettuce. Seed 

 black. 



Laitue Empereur a Forcer. This 

 small variety, which is very early, very 

 much resembles the White-seeded Tennis- 

 ball Lettuce, but is somewhat lighter in 



Earliest Dwarf Green Lettuce 

 (^ natural size). 



colour, and runs to seed sooner. 



Hubbard's Forcing Lettuce. A 



large, light-coloured American kind, some- 

 thing like the White-seeded Tennis-ball and the White Summer 

 Cabbage Lettuce. It is forced under glass in spring. 



III. SUMMER VARIETIES 



The culture of these is of the most simple kind. The seed is 

 sown in a seed-bed from March to July, and the seedlings are 

 usually pricked out once before they are planted out permanently, 

 which is done when they have made five or six good leaves. After 

 this, they require no further attention except frequent and plentiful 

 waterings. A good mulching of manure spread amongst them will 

 keep the soil cool and moist and stimulate the growth of the plants. 



Algiers Lettuce (Black-seeded}. In general appearance this 

 variety resembles the Red-edged Victoria Lettuce, but is smaller 

 and of a darker green. 

 A very nice little 

 Lettuce, suitable both 

 for the market and the 

 kitchen garden. In the 

 climate of Paris it is 

 a spring and summer 

 Lettuce, but in climates 

 where there are no hard 

 frosts it may be grown 

 for a winter crop. It 

 can bear close planting, 

 like the Tom Thumb 

 Lettuce. 



White-seeded 

 All - the - Year - Round 

 Lettuce (Laitue blonde #&f). Leaves of young plant light 

 green, short, entire, rounded, very faintly toothed at the base, 

 and slightly undulating. Full-grown plant with a round, com- 

 pact, very solid head, of a very pale green ; outer leaves short, 



Algiers Lettuce. 



